Catastrophe Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Catastrophe

Catastrophe Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Catastrophe quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe. — Robert Solow

The awful catastrophe of their quarrel had evaporated in a commonplace. He — Winston Graham

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

Principles which could be subverted by feeling in one direction were liable to the same catastrophe in another. The — Thomas Hardy

The 1953 coup was a catastrophe which slammed him [Mosaddegh] to floor, and from which Iran never fully recovered — Christopher De Bellaigue

She knew what she looked like - someone at the edge of catastrophe, someone already flinching from a blow that had not yet been delivered. — Josephine Humphreys

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe — Walter Benjamin

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

Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe. — John Colton

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink! — Karen Marie Moning

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe, — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The runner who is in peak condition is only a razor's edge from catastrophe. — George Sheehan

Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe. — Konstantin Chernenko

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

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

Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions. — Mignon McLaughlin

Catastrophe and exuberance are often partners in the dance of irony. — Jeff W. Horton

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing. — Niall Ferguson

Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.] — Gianrico Carofiglio

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open. — Saint Augustine

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe. — Billy Graham

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror. — Margaret Turnbull

Crises are so valuable, in fact, that sometimes it's worth stirring up a sense of looming catastrophe rather than letting it die down. — Charles Duhigg

Time had been reset by catastrophe. — Emily St. John Mandel

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. — Jean Cocteau

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

Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. — Adlai Stevenson I

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. — Noam Chomsky

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders. — Noam Chomsky

Not every minor inconvenience leads to a major catastrophe. — Lynn C. Tolson

God can never be found guilty of a natural catastrophe as long as survivors keep testifying that he was with them the whole time. — Daniel Ramalho

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H.G.Wells

Every catastrophe can hand us exactly what we need to awaken into who we really are. — Elizabeth Lesser

About the only thing we can imagine
is catastrophe. — David Graeber

I'll tickle his catastrophe. — James Joyce

I've got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, 'cause in case of a crazy catastrophe, I might have to learn how to swim. — Theophilus London

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. — Sumner Redstone

abuse of drugs was not "a mysterious and inexplicable natural catastrophe, but a form — David T. Courtwright

George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden. — Richard Dawkins

Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction. — James Allen

I'm planning a catastrophe. — Leonard Cohen

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation. — Dave Matthews

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

..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide... — Michel Leiris

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

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring. — Dieter Rams

I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space. — Gabe Newell

To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe — Bruce Chatwin

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe. — Horace Walpole

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. — Valerie Jarrett

Whenever a nation or a group of people is devoid of light, catastrophe comes, calamity hits, there is danger everywhere. — Sunday Adelaja

Most myths were made up by men who needed a scapegoat to avoid taking responsibility for a catastrophe of their own making. — S.J. Harper

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting. — Michael Bassey Johnson

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble. — Kristin Scott Thomas

That's the way of every human catastrophe. The douchebag is nearly indestructible. — Rick Yancey

The clearest sign of coming catastrophe is when all the bad shit in your life suddenly stops. You're entering the eye of the shitstorm. — Leah Raeder

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

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

In my head, when the gales are riding wild,
I steer towards catastrophe
then write about it. — Robin Robertson

When adversity entered his room, he bowed to his old acquaintance cordially; he tickled catastrophe in the ribs. — Victor Hugo

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. — Philip Johnson

Just when you think you're having a scene without Simon, he drops in to remind you that everyone else is a supporting character in his catastrophe. — Rainbow Rowell

Whatever power of the earth rampages, we turn to it dazed but anonymous eyes; whatever the name of the catastrophe, it is never the opposite of love. — Mary Oliver

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors. — Robert Fulghum

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. — Bruce Lee

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

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

Each time i face a catastrophe i draw a new scar to it , and only when it fades i know that the pain ended — Me

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe. — Ludwig Von Mises

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — Albert Einstein

Catastrophe was just one part of what always happened. It was a prelude to what came next. — James S.A. Corey

Oh, yes. Wife. Children. Home. Everything. The full catastrophe. — Nikos Kazantzakis

We urgently need to do - and I mean actually do - something radical to avert a global catastrophe. But I don't think we will.
I think we're fucked. — Stephen Emmott

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur — Doug Larson

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. — Yukio Mishima

This is not her story. But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences. — Douglas Adams

A director without a vision is a catastrophe. — Alan Arkin

Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. — Bill Gaede

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. — Susan Sontag

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe. — Vandana Shiva

Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe. — Jason Chaffetz

Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe. — Joe Hill

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe. — Carl Sagan

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

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. — Don DeLillo

The battle of Kursk ... the forcing of the Dnieper ... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe. — Vasily Chuikov

Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted — Aharon Appelfeld

Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead. — Donna Lynn Hope

Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability. — Robert Watson

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run. — Frank Herbert

Your life is just a series of catastrophes followed by a poorly executed sword swallowing side show — Shannon Lynette

This is the root of all catastrophe in the family: no one ever knows when to call it a day. — Emma Brockes

Catastrophe and creation are twins. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

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

While catastrophes do enter the lives of godly people, they attach themselves far more to people who reject Him. — Max Anders