Catastrophe Quotes · Page 15

It [making tron: Legacy movie] was everything. I got pulled into a different country, in a different language, and a different society.…

— Daniel Simon

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total…

— Daniel Quinn

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

— Rex Stout

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone…

— Edward A. Murphy, Jr

[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed…

— Clare Boothe Luce

We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not…

— Costa-Gavras

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him…

— Jack London

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as…

— Anais Nin

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

“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state,…

— Anonymous

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

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of…

— Nancy Gibbs

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

In China, it was always said that a double-digit rate of growth would be dangerous. Now, the country has a growth rate…

— Wolfgang Schauble

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

— Kurt Tucholsky

The news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting…

— Charlie Brooker

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a…

— Carl Jung

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

— Al Gore

Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory…

— Joachim von Ribbentrop

Look, look, Jeb [Bush] said we were safe with my brother. We were safe. Well, the World Trade Center just fell down!…

— Donald Trump

Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between…

— Robert Musil

Everyone who owns a home recognizes the need for fire insurance. We hope and pray that there will never be a fire.…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we…

— Jared Diamond

Boy trouble, huh?" "Boy catastrophe is more like it. I'm not sure I can do this." "Do what?" Concern sounded in Holiday's…

— C.C. Hunter