The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. — Jules Romains Copy Share Image
The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“So you think your life has become a catastrophe Oh, but it has to be for you to grow, boy.” — Supertramp Copy Share Image
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space. — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
“ 'You call this a catastrophe, but take it from me, the line between a catastrophe and a miracle is a fine… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
The refugees are not only going to be a demand on the country's resources, but also the refugees raise the possibility that… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I think 99% of climate scientists would agree that we need to reduce emissions as quickly as possible, and then begin removing… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive… — Robert Fagles Copy Share Image
That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly,… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Because we're suffering from brain fade. We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information." [...] "The flow… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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