Catastrophe Quotes

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

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

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

Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

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

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

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

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

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

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

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

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

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

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.

I'll tickle his catastrophe.

The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

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

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

Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

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.

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.

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

Floating high on the waters of catastrophe

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

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

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

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

You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.

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

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

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