Catastrophe Quotes

344 Catastrophe quotes by 289 unique authors

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is… — P.J. O'Rourke
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. — Albert Pike
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. — Sumner Redstone
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. — George Sand
If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms. — Martin Scorsese
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And… — Haile Selassie
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. — Susan Sontag
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. — Edward Teller
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble. — Kristin Scott Thomas
Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished… — Len Wein
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H.G. Wells
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in… — Cornel West
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. — Virginia Woolf
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out… — Margaret Heffernan
That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient,… — Roland Barthes
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us:… — D. H. Lawrence
Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw… — Pat Conroy
Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an… — Gary Snyder
Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the… — Marcel Proust

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