Quotes About Catastrophe

A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.

A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fianc'e; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than with the screams of the dying.

Particularly in the case of this war, one must never forget that if we lose it, we lose everything.

Explaining it to Albert Speer - We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.

As long as... diseases aren't of a catastrophic nature, people will slowly accustom themselves to them, and eventually succumb. It is then a stroke of luck-- though a bitter one--when fate decides to intervene in this slow process of decay and suddenly bring the victim face to face with the final stage of the disease. More often than not, the result of a catastrophe is that a cure is undertaken immediately, and carried through with a firm determination.

In a society like ours, to seek for literary glory seems to me an anachronism. Of what use is it to invoke an ancient sibyl when a muse is on the eve of birth? Pitiable actors in a tragedy nearing its end, that which it behooves us to do is to precipitate the catastrophe. The most deserving among us is he who plays best this part. Well, I no longer aspire to this sad success!

había muy pocas posibilidades de encontrarlo, y todavía menos de que alguno de los cuarenta y cinco pasajeros y tripulantes hubieran sobrevivido a la catástrofe.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

It took a catastrophe of socialized medicine to wake a lot of people up because it affects every single person in America, either directly or indirectly. That's when you get people's attention - when it directly affects them.

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Brazil is living the last hours of Pompeii.

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

I think we could very easily suffer a seriously catastrophic cyber event.

Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

No, we'll save what we can, we'll do what there is left to do. If we have to burn, Let's take a few more with us.

They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that someday it'll have to hit.

While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.

Earth changed in the black sky. It caught fire. Part of it seemed to come apart in a million pieces, as if a gigantic jigsaw had exploded. It burned with an unholy dripping glare for a minute, three times normal size, then dwindled.

One fire would destroy all of us, no matter who started it, for what reason.

In the destructive element immerse.