“what use is fear in a world where the worst catastrophes are those you ne’er see comin” — K.B. Laugheed Copy Share Image
Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms. — Martin Scorsese 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
“Children are always ready to believe that adult catastrophes are their fault.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. — Jean Giraudoux 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
“It never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different — unimagined,… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what… — George Santayana 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
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
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
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
...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of… — Al Gore 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
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in… — Liang Qichao 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
“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
“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
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
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 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
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
“[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
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
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. — Anais Nin 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)
