Catastrophic Quotes

118 quotes by 111 authors

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
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
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
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
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
The fact that some people can push others to the point of thinking that their lives are not worthy is catastrophic. — Melissa Reeves
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world — Tony Blair
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

Who Wrote These Catastrophic Quotes

111 authors contributed a total of 118 Catastrophic Quotes, led by these top contributors: