Quotes About Catastrophe

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events.

I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.

It's awful, ins't it, how I remember crap like that? Tiny, insignificant details in the midst of a massive disaster.

It's funny how small moments can ruin everything.

The situation facing Byzantium in the mid-1090s was not so much desperate as catastrophic.

Now an empty shell, after its heart was blown out by a Venetian cannonball in 1687

Goldstein's central thesis is that anxiety is the subjective experience of the organism in a catastrophic condition . An organism is thrown into a catastrophic condition when it cannot cope with the demands of its environment and, therefore, feels a threat to its existence or to values it holds essential for its existence.

Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet'ry Do not fear that your stay will be solit'ry Countless souls share your fate, you'll have company!

Don't imagine that our world can't collapse: there is nothing inevitable about progress or peace, and the global and national social and political order we inhabit today is no more immune from catastrophe than the pre–World War II order.

She was the girl with her finger in the dike," she said. "Little did anyone know that when she removed it, all hell was going to break loose.

Planeta, meteoro, duração, tudo isso me traz à mente uma ideia de um sábio francês moderno. Por cálculos que fez, é opinião dele que de dez em dez mil anos, haverá na terra um dilúvio universal, ou pelo menos continental, por motivo do deslocamento dos oceanos, produzido pelo giro do planeta.

It takes experience to know what is a catastrophe (Richard Hughes, 'A High Wind in Jamaica')

Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.

It is by worrying about adversity that people survive; complacency brings catastrophe.

is morbid individualism that turns crises into tragedies.

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people's lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women's faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.

That means for death, for the final catastrophe in which everything will be buried, because in the dissolution of death a flame is born whose secret is imparted only to those who are then and forever escaping the mould. The secret is incommunicable; it is that last knowledge to which we are driven by our most vital forces, the mystery which makes death not only supportable but desired. Etc. etc.

Love is circumstantial; we can love anyone if need be; and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.

A calamity, a catastrophe- it changes everything, doesn't it? It makes you aware that you cannot be indifferent toward your life. You cannot simply give away your life.

Have you ever heard of the Swiss cheese model? In order for a catastrophic event, such as a plane crash, to occur, a sequence of events precedes it. Think of these separate factors as slices of Swiss cheese lined up one behind the other. If any one of the holes in them doesn't align with the others, the series of events is changed or curtailed, and a catastrophe is prevented. But if all the holes line up --- The door is open for disaster.

This war that is coming—are you sure it will harm all in its path? Even the youth? Everything. It will destroy everything. Pax

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

y lo interesante es que todas y cada una de ellas son un auténtico desastre.