Quotes About Catastrophic

Indeed, there are times the most desirable, correct, necessary action results in catastrophic consequences. We're facing them now.

Love's a bloody river with level-five rapids. Only a catastrophic act of nature or a dam has any chance of stopping it—and then usually only succeeds in diverting it. Both measures are extreme and change the terrain so much you end up wondering why you bothered.

It was the most catastrophic media failure in a generation.

Estos ataques organizados contra las instituciones y bienes públicos, siempre después de acontecimientos de carácter catastrófico, declarándolos al mismo tiempo atractivas oportunidades de mercado, reciben un nombre en este libro: «capitalismo del desastre».

Many deniers are quite open about the fact that their distrust of the science grew out of a powerful fear that if climate change is real, the political implications would be catastrophic.

By itself, partyism is not the most serious threat to democratic self-government. But if it decreases government's ability to solve serious problems, then it has concrete and potentially catastrophic consequences for people's lives. I

You can become radicalized in the sense that you come to believe, firmly, a position that is within the political mainstream—for example, that your preferred political candidate is not just the best but immeasurably better than the alternatives, and that any other choice would be catastrophic.

States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.

A catastrophic earthquake razed Cahokia in the beginning of the thirteenth century, knocking down the entire western side of Monks Mound.

In short, Europe and the world were on the brink of a catastrophic war because neither friend nor foe believed that Britain and France had national honor.

If Crooked Hillary became president, that would be catastrophic because humina humina humina I'm required to say this for my career to survive.

La définition de la maladie demande comme point de départ la notion d'être individuel . La maladie apparaît lorsque l'organisme est modifié de telle façon qu'il en vient à des réactions catastrophiques dans le milieu qui lui est propre.

So far 2020 is like looking both ways before crossing the street and then getting hit by an airplane.

Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.

If investors avoid the Treasury market, we could be unable to pay off maturing securities, which would mean an immediate default. Market participants generally agree that even a brief default would create potentially catastrophic risks to the financial system, like the meltdown of 2008.

We'd met at university, where he was studying medicine and I was studying social awkwardness and a catastrophic inability to cope with deadlines.

It was incongruous at Coombargana. In a great city such things happen now and then, where people are too strained and hurried to pay much attention to the griefs of others, but in a small rural community like ours, led by wise and tolerant people such as my father and mother, staffed by good types culled and weeded out over the years, such secret, catastrophic griefs do not occur. Troubles at Coombargana had always been small troubles in my lifetime.

The closure of the stock market and the intervention of the authorities to supply liquidity almost certainly averted a catastrophic fire-sale of assets.

But the United States lost more than its innocence in the 1960s. Its moral deterioration constituted one of the most catastrophic collective mental breakdowns the world had ever witnessed.

You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.

You make the Titanic look like a tiny little misadventure.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

As the Habsburg military used to say, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious.