Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Even if predictable, unfortunately certain natural disasters are and remain unavoidable and invincible. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“-only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.” — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
“catastrophes in his kitchen, too. And he hadn’t even blamed her when” — Laura Florand Copy Share Image
“I’ve suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Your life is just a series of catastrophes followed by a poorly executed sword swallowing side show” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown” — Karen Thompson Walker 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
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
“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
“Everyone fears catastrophes and disasters and crashes and deaths, and people who attack you in the dark. You made all that worse… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. The expression of history in things is no other than that… — Theodor W. Adorno 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
I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life,… — Kirkpatrick Sale 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
“Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led… — Viktor Schauberger 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
I just find the people I want to work with and put it all together, and it's a lot of hard work,… — Madonna Ciccone 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
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
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
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a… — Carl Jung 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
“[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and… — Jonathan M. Katz 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
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
![“[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism. In fact, in case after case, the opposite occurs: In the earthquake and fire of 1906, Jack London observed: "never, in all San…” quote by Jonathan M. Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/500/jonathan-m-katz-110193_adversity_for-decades-researchers-have-told-us-tha_2728169.jpg)
