It's the opposite on a sitcom. People crave the character to not learn from their mistakes. They want to just see the… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
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
There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead,… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A strike is a catastrophe for him because it threatens a… — Roland Barthes 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
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
We have to stop meeting like this." And that was the truest thing ever spoke. I needed to stop staring at his… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
When the regime changed in Japan, the Japanese changed; Russians too can change, as long as the conditions for it are present… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom.… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, "The biggest institutions of America -… — Jamie Dimon 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
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
It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should… — Aleksandr Vasilevsky Copy Share Image
On Syria, it's clear that the indiscriminate attacks on civilians by the [Bashar] Assad regime and Russia will only worsen the humanitarian… — Barack Obama 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
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
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further,… — Selma James Copy Share Image
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad… — Winston Churchill 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
Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary… — Jane Velez-Mitchell 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
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
“Man is at the mercy of events. Life is a perpetual succession of events, and we must submit to it. We never… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“So it was like that now, catastrophe inevitable at the most empty moments. Everyone waiting, almost wanting it, a secret, guilty desire… — Maggie Helwig 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
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
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
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
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
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