Best 97 quotes in «catastrophe quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

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

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’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.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

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

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

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

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

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

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

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.

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.

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

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

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

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

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.

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

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.

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 universe remains dark. We are animals struck by 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.

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

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.

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

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

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!

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

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.

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

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.

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

Er bestrich sich Stirn und Brust, unwissend, was er aus seinem Zustande machen sollte, und ein unsägliches Wonnegefühl ergriff ihn, als ein Westwind, vom Meere her, sein wiederkehrendes Leben anwehte, und sein Auge sich nach allen Richtungen über die blühende Gegend von St. Jago hinwandte.

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

For the briefest of instants, a miles-wide hole appeared from the middle of the Earth to the top of the sky. The Moho rang like a tuning fork in harmonic response to the billion megaton impact. Seismic waves propagated in all directions, some dampening as normal, others amplified harmonically as Earth’s interior quivered like a bowl of pudding. Seismometers spiked wildly, their needles bouncing back and forth like pin-balls. A billion megatons exploded outward from the depths of the quivering Moho blasting a crater eighty-five miles in diameter and spewing billions of tons of superheated rock twelve hundred miles into space. In the blink of an eye the Earth grew a tail, as a mushroom cloud visible from Mars formed and spread, black as the Devil's eye.

Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failure and catastrophe and beyond into the abyss with arrogance and anger because wisdom is often too polite to fight. Wisdom doesn’t like to impose its will, but that is all ignorance understands—force over free will and choice. Sooner or later the world comes to its senses, but oh the damage that has been done.