Quotes About Catastrophe

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3 000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

You have that alarmed look, one caused by a very unpleasant thought about something that might not even happen. Those unpleasantries don't usually happen, you know. What were you thinking about, dear Cora?" "Catastrophe," she whispered. "Well, stop it." Bonnie began unbuttoning the dress. "Just stop it.

the idea of six thousand innocents being annihilated in this way was devastating,

He had expected, at minimum, to be able to examine tread marks and a trail of crushed vegetation and small trees the trailer had surely sheared on its slide down the hill, like a butter knife of the gods.

taken the full brunt of the FOAB explosion and shockwave.

kinetic round would bring massive death and destruction to Turlock,

Five thousand! The biggest loss since 9/11.

Total species elimination

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

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

Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About: - Titanic sinking again. - Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda. - Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies.

The fire was barely fifteen minutes old. What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed the city to a fiery death.

I have seen hell, it is a great city under siege.

Inexorable self, carried like the superfluous and tiresome piece of luggage which it is impossible to lose; franked with the customs' stamp of every frontier, retrieved exasperatingly from the disaster where everything else is lost, companion of the dislocation of cancelled sailings and missed connections, witness of every catastrophe, survivor of all voyages and situations…I

In the soft apocalypse at Angkor, we can see directly what happens when political instability meets climate catastrophe. It looks chillingly similar to what cities are enduring in the contemporary world.

Do you know what happened to the dinosaurs? The Others is what happened to the dinosaurs.

Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life, it's just catastrophe.

But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in her bare hands!