Catastrophes Quotes

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov

Science, May, Problems

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia Woolf

Age, Laugh, Run

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
Theodor Adorno

Past, Destroyed, Recent

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
Chuck Jones

Sunshine, Human, Try

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Albert Pike

War, Victory, Result

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.
Martin Scorsese

Everything, Along, Moves

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet

Happiness, Great, Ruined

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag

Seems, Taken, Large

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
Len Wein

Positive, Thought, Sometimes

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
Jean Anouilh

Life, Almost, Happens

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
Jean Giraudoux

Great, Witness, Privileges

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
Werner Herzog

Psychology, Century, Major

I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.
Geraldine Brooks

War, Past, Find

I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for a long time and had this subspecialty in covering catastrophes. It had spoiled me a little because you have a tremendous amount of autonomy, and I couldn't really see being an editor in an office.
Geraldine Brooks

Time, Long, Office

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
Bjorn Lomborg

Time, Death, Past

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
Norman Borlaug

Despair, Gods, Plant

The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.
Otto Schily

Past, Important, Become

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
William Irwin Thompson

Failure, Cannot, Often

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Georges Clemenceau

War, Victory, Results

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Makes, Though, Felt

I welcome a discussion on a long-term, pro-active approach to disaster relief for Americans. Until Congress arrives at a conclusion, however, we must continue to honor America's honorable tradition of helping Americans recover for natural catastrophes.
Cedric Richmond

America, Honor, Until

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.
Rosalia de Castro

Great, Followed

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