Catastrophe famous quotes

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

#Writing #Metaphor #Catastrophe

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

#Democrat #Catastrophe #Troubadours

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

#Catastrophe

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

#Significant #Aspect #Catastrophe

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

#Egotism #Catastrophe #Accidents

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

#Waiting #Catastrophe

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

#Sometimes #Catastrophe

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

#Moving #Assuming #Catastrophe

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

#Privilege #Witness #Catastrophe

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

#Categories #Catastrophe #Humans

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

#Inflation #Catastrophe

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

#Government #Decent #Catastrophe

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

#Might #Stuck #Catastrophe

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

#Risk #Catastrophe

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

#Missing #Fantasy #Catastrophe

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

#Broke #Disgrace #Catastrophe

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

#Iraq #Connections #Catastrophe

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

#Catastrophe

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

#Illusion #Praise #Catastrophe

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

#Math #Catastrophe

Floating high on the waters of catastrophe
-- Julien Gracq

#Water #Floating #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.
-- Steve Inskeep

#Crazy #Rhythm #Catastrophe

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

#Globalization #Catastrophe

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

#Giving #Saws #Catastrophe

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

#Breakthrough #Catastrophe