Catastrophic Quotes

118 Catastrophic quotes by 109 unique authors

It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is… — Kazuo Ishiguro
No, you sort of have to put that out of your mind. There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course.… — Gus Grissom
Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the… — Al Gore
People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the… — Elizabeth Kolbert
In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink of… — Unknown Author
Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real. — Sarah Palin
Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change. — Joseph J. Romm
Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did… — Lois Lowry
As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic… — Greg Walden
Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths… — Margaret Thatcher
I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic… — John Christy
Decrying the mismanagement that led to the summer's catastrophic wildfires: The Clinton administration didn't cause these fires, but their policies have left the Forest Service… — Marc Racicot
Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of… — Dave Barry
The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that there is no… — Hendrik Tennekes
The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had… — Kumi Naidoo
The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a… — Eduard Bernstein
The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.… — Chrissie Hynde
Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though Vishy Anand has… — Vladimir Kramnik
I feel that right from the start the players were prepared to experience catastrophic results with comments like: 'It's going to be tough and we… — Lilian Thuram
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to… — Erich Fromm
Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding… — Garry Kasparov
This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our… — Jerry Brown
Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that… — Oliver Burkeman
According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible… — Matt Fitzgerald

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