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
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.” — K.J. Wignall Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.” — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen… — Rick Snyder Copy Share Image
I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150… — John Aspinall Copy Share Image
It's hard to find a reason that is not environmentally centered, that [doesn't have] something to do with global warming or what… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
... universal adoption of the institutions of the free society would better enable adaptation to climate both now and in the future.… — Julian Morris Copy Share Image
The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should… — Aleksandr Vasilevsky Copy Share Image
“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and… — Wendell Berry 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
“I am not suggesting that everything bad that happens to us is sent directly by a knowing hand—cooked up specially for our… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator.… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us. — Moby Copy Share Image
“When growth becomes a supreme good, unrestricted by any other ethical considerations, it can easily lead to catastrophe.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton 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
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 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
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 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
Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened. — Jean Baudrillard 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
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
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
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