Catastrophe Quote by James A. Owen Download Open image “Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.” — James A. Owen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catastrophe Course correction Sometimes
Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it. — Leslie Parrish Copy Share Image
Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course. — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes. — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability.” — Robert Watson Copy Share Image
“The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact. — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.... — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment. — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
“My name is Samaranth,” said the great red beast, “and all those you see around you declined my invitation, opting instead to help themselves… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue. — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign. — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
“I cannot be defeated, because you are not my opponent. I cannot lose, because I am not fighting. And in the end, all I… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you — and give it to you. — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,' said Tummeler,… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this… — Rick Snyder Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
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… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When the regime changed in Japan, the Japanese changed; Russians too can change, as long as the conditions for it are present once again.… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
