Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“SpaceX is in the process of creating the greatest environmental catastrophe I have ever witnessed.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink! — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“A disaster wrapped in a catastrophe sitting on a pile of misfortune.” — Tracy Brogan Copy Share Image
Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms. — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
“When growth becomes a supreme good, unrestricted by any other ethical considerations, it can easily lead to catastrophe.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us. — Moby Copy Share Image
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.” — K.J. Wignall Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
You will vote for first choice candidate whether or not you think he'll win. But I'm saying you may find yourself for… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If you're under 26, you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I am not suggesting that everything bad that happens to us is sent directly by a knowing hand—cooked up specially for our… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness. — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
“It takes experience to know what is a catastrophe (Richard Hughes, 'A High Wind in Jamaica'),” — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“the Mosquitia civilization vanished everywhere all at once—in a sudden, civilization-wide catastrophe.” — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” — Doug Larsen Copy Share Image
