Catastrophic Quotes
118 quotes by 111 authors
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I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get…
— Jello Biafra
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to…
— James Buchan
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When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing immigration reform to…
— Lindsey Graham
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The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a…
— Michele Flournoy
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Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations…
— Hugh Shelton
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The fact that some people can push others to the point of thinking that their lives are not worthy is catastrophic.
— Melissa Reeves
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When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately…
— Michael J. Fox
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Just relax. When I was younger, I made myself the victim of catastrophic thinking. Anything that went wrong was the end of the world. But…
— Gabourey Sidibe
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Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing…
— Barry Commoner
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If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite…
— William Johnson Sollas
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Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that…
— Leonard Bishop
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Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and…
— Kofi Annan
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Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision…
— Jacques Ellul
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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a…
— Leon Trotsky
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Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
— Rupert Murdoch
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Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war…
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation…
— Peter Lilley
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The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote,…
— Kumi Naidoo
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If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world
— Tony Blair
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You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have…
— Tracey Gold
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