Catastrophe Quotes

344 Catastrophe quotes by 289 unique authors

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity. — Simon Kuper
It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like… — Mike Nichols
As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesnâ€™t… — Noam Chomsky
The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of… — R.J. Rushdoony
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability â€” the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed… — Aleksandar Hemon
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be… — Edward St Aubyn
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved… — Susan Sontag
To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To… — David Hawkins
The terrible part of this looming catastrophe is that people have been working on solutions for years and have developed concrete steps to massively reduce… — David Suzuki
I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn't think he needed Him. It is nice to take care… — Bernie Siegel
Everyone who owns a home recognizes the need for fire insurance. We hope and pray that there will never be a fire. Nevertheless, we pay… — Gordon B. Hinckley
As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically diminished… — Rod Dreher
Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a… — Joan Halifax
If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it. — Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. — Bruce Lee
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just… — Bruce Lee
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of… — Harold Bloom
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade.… — Joy Williams
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors. — Robert Fulghum

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