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  • Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. -- William Irwin Thompson
  • We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet. -- Pam Brown
  • Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source. -- George Santayana
  • Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes. -- Rosalia de Castro
  • War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. -- Albert Pike
  • War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. -- Georges Clemenceau
  • The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. -- Theodor Adorno
  • One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. -- Jean Giraudoux
  • If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms. -- Martin Scorsese
  • I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. -- Werner Herzog
  • Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. -- Isaac Asimov
  • Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. -- Norman Borlaug
  • Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke. -- Chuck Jones
  • The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force. -- Otto Schily
  • It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. -- Virginia Woolf
  • Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! -- Jules Verne
  • I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes. -- Aleksandar Hemon
  • Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.' -- Parker Palmer
  • AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. -- Susan Sontag
  • The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to. -- Margaret Heffernan
  • Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
  • One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it. -- Gary Johnson
  • I welcome a discussion on a long-term, pro-active approach to disaster relief for Americans. Until Congress arrives at a conclusion, however, we must continue to honor America's honorable tradition of helping Americans recover for natural catastrophes. -- Cedric Richmond
  • The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents. -- James Howard Kunstler
  • We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties. -- Frei Otto
  • I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative. -- Geraldine Brooks
  • We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century. -- Bjorn Lomborg
  • I just find the people I want to work with and put it all together, and it's a lot of hard work, and all kinds of catastrophes happen, but I don't really get too much resistance. But when you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes. -- Ilona Andrews
  • Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. -- Anais Nin
  • So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism. -- Hector Bianciotti
  • Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course. -- William J. Bernstein
  • I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes. -- Aharon Appelfeld
  • Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine -- Gerhard Kocher
  • Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life. -- Mason Cooley
  • Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? -- Jean Anouilh
  • How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles. -- H. G. Wells
  • While catastrophes do enter the lives of godly people, they attach themselves far more to people who reject Him. -- Max Anders
  • Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes. -- William H. Calvin
  • Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. -- Ernest Dimnet
  • Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face. -- Kenneth Boa
  • The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. -- John Ruskin
  • We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else. -- Asne Seierstad
  • ...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes... -- Al Gore
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  • What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes. -- Isaac Asimov
  • You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them? -- Melina Marchetta
  • But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown. -- Karen Thompson Walker
  • I had grown into a worrier, a girl on constant guard for catastrophes large and small, for the disappointments I now sensed were hidden all around us right in plain sight. -- Karen Thompson Walker
  • Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely. -- Sam Harris
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  • Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events. -- Elizabeth Montagu
  • The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions. -- Pete Hamill
  • Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface. -- George Julius Poulett Scrope
  • We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it. -- Gershom Scholem
  • 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
  • For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce. -- Oscar Wilde
  • We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws. -- Rose Macaulay
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