“Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.” — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. — George Sand Copy Share Image
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Catastrophe and exuberance are often partners in the dance of irony.” — Jeff W. Horton Copy Share Image
This is a catastrophe. You must lead if they get me. On my command break free. — Otep Copy Share Image
I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Just imagine going to war over Danzig - such a world catastrophe, just to prevent Germany from getting a piece of territory… — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things,… — Peter Altenberg Copy Share Image
There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
With all the catastrophes that are going on, and all the hardships that are going on around the world, you don't do… — Gino Vannelli Copy Share Image
But my vote for Venus's most peculiar feature is the presence of craters that are all relatively young and uniformly distributed over… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we… — Robert Ley Copy Share Image
I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes… — Robert A. Heinlein 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 believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The human species is now at a point where it has to make choices that are going to determine whether decent survival… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity. — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
“Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability.” — Robert Watson Copy Share Image
We would not have this catastrophe of Obamacare if it were not for Jon Tester. — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response. — Sam Nunn Copy Share Image
If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
When I saw from Rome that catastrophe (brought by Yolanda) I had to be here. And on those very days I decided… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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