Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Straight up from this road Away from the fitted particles of frost Coating the hull of each chick pea, And the stiff… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a… — Vlastimil Hort Copy Share Image
Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information,… — Mark Twain 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 future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
We are heading towards catastrophe. I think the world is going to pieces. I am very pessimistic. Why? Because the world hasn't… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Death was an existential catastrophe, a rip in the soft upholstery with which humanity padded over a hard uncaring universe, but it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Death releases the energy into air. If a true catastrophe is looming, the disturbance becomes such that a sensitive individual may become… — Jed Rubenfeld Copy Share Image
By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders… — Nguyen Viet Thang 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
“These were happy, cheerful moments, innocent in appearance but hiding the growing possibility of disaster: this is what makes the life of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe.… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“This catastrophe brings to mind the Korean Air Lines plane shot down in 1983 by a Soviet military fighter, killing 269. President… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Error is not just acceptable, it is necessary for the continuation of life, provided it is not too great. A large error… — Jacques Lecoq Copy Share Image
“no point whatsoever meeting catastrophe with reason when what was needed was our prophets deranged and coming towards us wild-eyed and smeared… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in… — Liang Qichao Copy Share Image
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi grabbed full power for himself. Not even the pharaohs had so much authority, to say nothing of his… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
We could not wipe ourselves out with a nuclear war. I do not want so sound too positive. It would be a… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
When people talk about people being left behind - middle wages have not gone up for years, and we should recognize that,… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
