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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
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
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
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
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
Every catastrophe can hand us exactly what we need to awaken into who we really are.
— Elizabeth Lesser
About the only thing we can imagineis 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
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
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
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
— Eric Alterman
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
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
![Catastrophe Quotes By Clare Boothe Luce: They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/catastrophe-quotes-by-clare-boothe-luce-120321.jpg "Catastrophe Quotes By Clare Boothe Luce: They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners")
They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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
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
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
— Susan Sontag
Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.
— Jason Chaffetz
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.
— Carl Sagan
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
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
