“ '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
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
In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love… — John Ruskin 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
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
It took a catastrophe of socialized medicine to wake a lot of people up because it affects every single person in America,… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the… — Robert Cailliau Copy Share Image
[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and… — Pitirim Sorokin 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 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
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
Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to… — Lance Armstrong 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
To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs,… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people… — Noam Chomsky 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
“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
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
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
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
I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
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