Catastrophe Quotes

344 Catastrophe quotes by 289 unique authors

Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of… — Jean Baudrillard
Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes. — Rosalia de Castro
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe. — Mark Skousen
When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror. — Margaret Turnbull
I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my… — Lois Lowry
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in a desert. They… — Liang Qichao
The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in… — Vaclav Havel
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. — John Ruskin
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because… — Robert A. Heinlein
Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any… — Martin Rees
In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance… — Paul Davies
If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic… — Pat Buchanan
It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be… — Selma James
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments… — Mario Batali
Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders,… — Linwood Barclay
There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos.… — Robert Cailliau
The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe. — Jason Mraz
However, I also want to say this. The ranch standoff that took place out in Nevada was not about a man named Cliven Bundy. At… — Sean Hannity

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