Cataclysms Quote by Jean-Paul Malfatti

“Life, as I know it, is cataclysms and apocalypses. With each passing day I feel that much more incompetent even to trace gestures or…

— Fernando Pessoa

Mama Nature is kinda good, but does spank he who plays tricks on her!

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find…

— Norman Maclean

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

— Albert Pike

How can government reduce the frequency and the severity of future catastrophes? Companies that have the potential to create significant harm must be required…

— Richard Thaler

One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government…

— Gary Johnson

The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian…

— E. O. Wilson

Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary…

— Norman Maclean

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem…

— George Santayana

One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful…

— Gilbert Burnet

“In the history of art, late works are the catastrophes.”

— Adorno, Theodor W

“Is the destruction not, rather, irrefutable proof that the catastrophes which develop, so to speak, in our hands and seem to break out suddenly…

— W.G. Sebald