Cataclysm Quotes
32 quotes by 30 authors
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Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
— Camille Claudel
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My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.
— Madeline Miller
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Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away in…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last 50 years than any other natural cataclysm.
— Kerry Emanuel
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The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once…
— F L Lucas
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The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought…
— Albert Pike
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In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were…
— Wilfred Burchett
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You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind…
— Mark Rothko
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Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no…
— Cornell Woolrich
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A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
— Aldous Huxley
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If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble…
— Pierre Daninos
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As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the…
— Eliot Spitzer
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Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we…
— Eliot Spitzer
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Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced…
— Eliot Spitzer
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Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and…
— Iain Pears
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to…
— D. H. Lawrence
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...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for…
— Alice Munro
Who Wrote These Cataclysm Quotes
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