Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact,… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life,… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The problem of environmental children's health is very urgent in Russia. Environmental situation now is the main factor, which determines young generation's… — Maria Cherkasova Copy Share Image
It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying.… — Eric Shipton Copy Share Image
Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision.… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending.… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
The Severing is a catastrophe: an event that does not take place 'at' a certain 'point' in linear time, but a wave… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
