The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“I’ve suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“Using figure B, we can stipulate that an existential risk is equivalent to (i) all red-dot catastrophes, and (ii) any black-dot catastrophe… — Phil Torres Copy Share Image
“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“-only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.” — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
Even if predictable, unfortunately certain natural disasters are and remain unavoidable and invincible. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of public school at all; I think it's one of the greatest catastrophes of American history. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
How can government reduce the frequency and the severity of future catastrophes? Companies that have the potential to create significant harm must… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is… — Norman Maclean 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
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Everything stopped that day, literally. I even stopped growing…Injured and traumatized children--they quite often fail to grow to normal height…Resources are diverted.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Chris, soap people are like us-they seldom go outdoors. And when they do, we only hear about it, never see it. They… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“We tend to think of environmental catastrophes—such as the recent Exxon Valdez oil-spill disaster in the Bay of Alaska—as "accidents": isolated phenomena… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Humanity was heaved back to the paper age in half a second. Life-support systems spat out bolts of energy and died. Precious… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Mama Nature is kinda good, but does spank he who plays tricks on her! — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
“Is the destruction not, rather, irrefutable proof that the catastrophes which develop, so to speak, in our hands and seem to break… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
