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Catastrophe Quotes

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Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.
Rex Stout

Authors on Catastrophe Quotes: James Joyce Anna Quindlen Mignon McLaughlin Ilona Andrews Aharon Appelfeld Martin Scorsese Rex Stout Jean Giraudoux William J. Bernstein Moby James A. Owen Al Gore Masha Gessen Richard Ben-Veniste Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Jean-Paul Sartre Virginia Woolf Ludwig von Mises Hector Bianciotti Clare Boothe Luce Max Hastings Rosalia de Castro Edna St. Vincent Millay Jules Romains Theodor Adorno Marine Le Pen Costa-Gavras Max Lucado Steve Inskeep Eric Alterman Julien Gracq Theodore Roosevelt Leonard Cohen
2.
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
Jean Giraudoux

3.
Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.
Marine Le Pen

4.
Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.
Ludwig von Mises

5.
Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.
Rosalia de Castro

6.
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
Theodore Roosevelt

7.
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
Al Gore

8.
I'm planning a catastrophe.
Leonard Cohen

9.
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

10.
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
Jules Romains

11.
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
Mignon McLaughlin

12.
If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.
Martin Scorsese

13.
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Edward Teller

14.
Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.
Jean Baudrillard

15.
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
Aharon Appelfeld

16.
Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.
James A. Owen

17.
I'll tickle his catastrophe.
James Joyce

18.
The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.
Jean-Paul Sartre

19.
They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.
Clare Boothe Luce

20.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
Theodor Adorno

21.
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-Gavras

22.
It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.
Masha Gessen

23.
Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
Bill Gates

24.
Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.
William J. Bernstein

25.
So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.
Hector Bianciotti

26.
That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

27.
Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.
Anna Quindlen

28.
You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.
Ilona Andrews

29.
We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.
Moby

30.
No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.
Richard Ben-Veniste

31.
Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

32.
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
Max Hastings

33.
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
Eric Alterman

34.
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

35.
In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it's a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.
Max Lucado

36.
Floating high on the waters of catastrophe
Julien Gracq

37.
It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.
J. Lynn

38.
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

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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
Tony Campolo