Catastrophe Quote by Al Gore

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we…

— Al Gore

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

— Thomas Schelling

“The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Think the unthinkable. Expect the unexpected. Believe the unbelievable.

— Anonymous

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

— Victor Hugo

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

— Jean Baudrillard

It's impossible that the improbable will never happen.

— Emil Julius Gumbel

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

— Salman Rushdie

“It never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different — unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.

— Robert Veninga

The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

— Anonymous

Even if predictable, unfortunately certain natural disasters are and remain unavoidable and invincible.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti