Catastrophe Quotes
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.
It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.
Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.
We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.
Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe
The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.
Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.
What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?
The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.
The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.
Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.
We are not alone. We have many brothers who in this moment of catastrophe came to help. And we too, because of this, we feel more like brothers and sisters because we helped each other.
When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.
Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.
Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.
I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.
When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.
I think the Israelis are beginning to realize more that they are moving toward a one-state solution, which would be a catastrophe for Israel.
Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another.
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.
Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical and psychic hardship, and loss.
We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
One accident or terrorist strike involving high-level waste would endanger lives and cause a catastrophe that would leave millions of dollars in damages and take years to clean up
So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news is in Pakistan, the city manages to beat that in the frequency of catastrophes.
We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.
Ive got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, cause in case of a crazy catastrophe, I might have to learn how to swim.
Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.
Be proactive not reactive, for an apparently insignificant issue ignored today can spawn tomorrow's catastrophe.
Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.
Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.