Quotes About Catastrophe

It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time. Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control.

We're using up the Earth. It's almost gone. You can't live with such fears and keep on whistling. The waiting builds up in you like a tide. You start wanting it to be done with. You find yourself saying to the sky, Just do it. Do your worst. Get it over with.

The floods, the fires, the tornadoes, the hurricanes, the droughts, the water shortages, the earthquakes. [...] Why did I think it would nonetheless be business as usual? Because we'd been hearing these things for so long, I suppose. You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you

It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time. Keep

It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time.

Nothing wrecks your nails like a lethal pandemic plague

What you mean is, with God in the story there's a penalty, said Toby. Yes, said Adam One. There's a penalty without God in the story, too, needless to say. But people are less likely to credit that. If there's a penalty, they want a penalizer. They dislike senseless catastrophe.

Por que achei que apesar de tudo as coisas correriam normalmente? Acho que porque já estávamos ouvindo notícias como aquelas há muito tempo. Você não acredita que o céu está caindo até que um pedaço dele caia em cima de você.

If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived.

Any time your head explodes, that's not a good situation.

His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.

Were I not so busy with the matters of the Mayfair Witches," he wrote, "perhaps this disappearance would never have occurred. I might have been more attentive to D. during his time of transition. I might have held him more firmly in my affections and thereby earned more surely his complete trust. As it is, I can only surmise what has become of him, and I fear he has met with spirtual catastrophe quite against his will.

If the world comes to an end, I shall be well dressed for it, whether it is by the light of day or this dark of night.

I think you were made for this; for reassuring, and given to us, if I may speculate, to force us to see our catastrophes in the new light of modern conscience.

Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there!

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. - Jeanette Rankin

What catastrophes seem to do—sometimes in the span of a few minutes—is turn back the clock on ten thousand years of social evolution. Self-interest gets subsumed into group interest because there is no survival outside group survival, and that creates a social bond that many people sorely miss.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men.

To call it a "setback" is like calling the Expulsion from Eden a minor misunderstanding.

That was bad news. Terrible. The worst.

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?