Adversity Quote by Winston Churchill

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them…

— Chuck Palahniuk

We are like a building for building fall and then we rebuild and with every rebuild we build stronger finding where the weak spots…

— Anonymous

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I…

— Annalee Newitz

I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of…

— Avi Lewis

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

— Jan Struther

At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the…

— Jonathan Meades

Building takes passion and energy. Maintenance is awful. It's nothing but fatigue. Once you reach the top, maintaining that beast is awful.

— Urban Meyer

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

— Robert Mugabe

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

— Charles Darwin

The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or…

— John Darnielle

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

— Joel Salatin