“The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown” — Karen Thompson Walker 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 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
“I’ve suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“catastrophes in his kitchen, too. And he hadn’t even blamed her when” — Laura Florand Copy Share Image
“Your life is just a series of catastrophes followed by a poorly executed sword swallowing side show” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“Using figure B, we can stipulate that an existential risk is equivalent to (i) all red-dot catastrophes, and (ii) any black-dot catastrophe… — Phil Torres Copy Share Image
Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
“Take a look at anyone’s life. Take a look at your own. In the long fold catastrophe that makes up your three-score… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I welcome a discussion on a long-term, pro-active approach to disaster relief for Americans. Until Congress arrives at a conclusion, however, we… — Cedric Richmond Copy Share Image
“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of… — Alexandre Dumas 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
The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have… — Al Gore 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
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
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I just find the people I want to work with and put it all together, and it's a lot of hard work,… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Everything stopped that day, literally. I even stopped growing…Injured and traumatized children--they quite often fail to grow to normal height…Resources are diverted.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Humanity was heaved back to the paper age in half a second. Life-support systems spat out bolts of energy and died. Precious… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and… — Jonathan M. Katz Copy Share Image
Even if predictable, unfortunately certain natural disasters are and remain unavoidable and invincible. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“-only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.” — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
![“[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism. In fact, in case after case, the opposite occurs: In the earthquake and fire of 1906, Jack London observed: "never, in all San…” quote by Jonathan M. Katz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/500/jonathan-m-katz-110193_adversity_for-decades-researchers-have-told-us-tha_2728169.jpg)
