quotes about Catastrophe
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I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.
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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
-- Edward TellerSource : Edward Teller (1980). “The Pursuit of Simplicity”, Pepperdine Press
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As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
-- Eric Alterman -
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So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.
-- Hector Bianciotti -
Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.
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Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.
-- Jean Baudrillard -
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One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
-- Jean GiraudouxSource : Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
-- Jules Romains -
Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
-- Max HastingsSource : "My vote". www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2010.
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I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.
-- Michael Lewis -
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions....
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.
-- Norman Maclean -
Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.
-- Rex StoutSource : Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.87, Bantam
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No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.
-- Richard Ben-VenisteSource : "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.
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Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
-- Virginia Woolf -
Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.
-- William J. Bernstein -
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Floating high on the waters of catastrophe
-- Julien GracqSource : Julien Gracq (2017). “Balcony in the Forest”, p.99, New York Review of Books
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So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news is in Pakistan, the city manages to beat that in the frequency of catastrophes.
-- Steve Inskeep -
Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.
-- Marine Le PenSource : Source: www.cbsnews.com
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We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.
-- Costa-GavrasSource : Source: progressive.org
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Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.
-- Rosalia de Castro