Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.” — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success… — Eduard Bernstein Copy Share Image
One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the… — Stephen Smale Copy Share Image
Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case,… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory… — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
We are not alone. We have many brothers who in this moment of catastrophe came to help. And we too, because of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“This is what catastrophe does: it strips away the fluff and the white noise, the should I really and the but what… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things,… — Peter Altenberg Copy Share Image
If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of… — Moshe Sharett Copy Share Image
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
![“I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women’s faces while they are saying they regret…” quote by Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ce/anais-nin-288_catastrophe_i-looked-at-it-revolver-as-if-it-reminde_2054971.jpg)
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![“An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.” quote by Stephen Smale](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/42a/stephen-smale-279769_announcements_an-announcement-of-christopher-zeeman-s_2260453.png)
![“There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.” quote by Peter Altenberg](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/386/peter-altenberg-45156_ambition_there-are-only-two-things-that-can-destr_319472.png)
