Catastrophe Quotes

344 Catastrophe quotes by 289 unique authors

One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies,… — Gilbert Burnet
He answered, "The woman whom You gave to be with me" (Gen 3:9-12), he did not say, "the woman deceived me," but "The woman whom… — Dorotheus of Gaza
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree… — Carl Jung
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which… — Richard Rodney Bennett
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. — Stephen Jay Gould
. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out… — Unknown Author
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that? — Winston Churchill
Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the… — B. C. Forbes
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe. — Carl Sagan
The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many… — Jonathan Schell
Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be… — Eric Allin Cornell
So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism. — Hector Bianciotti
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. — R. W. Apple
There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are… — Peter Altenberg
Error is not just acceptable, it is necessary for the continuation of life, provided it is not too great. A large error is a catastrophe,… — Jacques Lecoq
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These… — Kate Wilhelm
Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith… — Robert Ley
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. — Bill Gaede
Time is running out fast.Â I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there… — Willem Buiter

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