Best 97 quotes in «catastrophe quotes» category

Your life is just a series of catastrophes followed by a poorly executed sword swallowing side show

As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it's a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

I’ve never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it’s much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that’s probably just because it’s you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes.

It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.

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.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

While catastrophes do enter the lives of godly people, they attach themselves far more to people who reject Him.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.

The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescuing themselves from an inevitable social and moral catastrophe.

What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].

Catastrophe can be turned into an advantage, just as an advantage with incorrect application can be turned into a catastrophe.

Archaic myths from many parts of Europe (and around the world) refer to this event by mention of bright new stars which fell to Earth as seven flaming mountains, of how the oceans rose up in vast waves and totally engulfed the lands, and how summer was driven away with a cold darkness that lasted several years. In support of the mythological accounts of the vast waves covering the lands it is important to mention that many of the highest mountains in England, Scotland, and Ireland are littered with beds of sand and gravel containing sea shells deposited in the very recent geological past. Geology also gives irrefutable evidence that at two times in the recent past, around 7640 BC and 3100 BC, there have been complete reversals of the Earth's magnetic field caused by an outside influence, most probably a comet.

Catastrophe alone sparks man’s salvation. I don’t mean in the religious sense, although I guess it is appropriate there, too, because believers agree that salvation comes only after death. It is part of the human near-tragedy that we learn more from loss than from gain. Gain binds us until we stumble and fall into that black pit then we find the spirit of understanding and truth. And if we fall far enough and still persist, we find our salvation.

Comment pouvaient-ils accepter que l'histoire de leur vie s'efface sous le souffle d'une bombe? Alors, sur la page blanche du jardin, ils tentaient de la réécrire avec le seul alphabet dont ils disposaient. Ces meubles et ces bibelots formaient des mots qu'ils avaient agglutinés en phrases selon une syntaxe de la mémoire qui racontait l'histoire de leur vie.

Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead.