Quotes About Catastrophe

It was rather like a forced-on numbness of spirit. The long, long stress of a gale does it; the suspense of the interminably culminating catastrophe; and there is a bodily fatigue in the mere holding on to existence within the excessive tumult; a searching and insidious fatigue that penetrates deep into a man's breast to cast down and sadden his heart, which is incorrigible, and of all the gifts of the earth - even before life itself - aspires to peace.

Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.

contributed to the disaster.

As catástrofes dos tempos mostraram-nos que o povo ensinado a ser cegamente fiel em qualquer sistema se privará da sua própria liberdade; matará o que lhe dá a liberdade, e fugirá com o ditador.

You may know that there is really (almost) nothing to worry about, but you cannot help images of disaster from coming to mind.

nakba, the word the Arabs used to describe the catastrophe of their flight from the land of Palestine. The

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

The problem you face is not the problem described in the catastrophe clause of your worry. The problem you face is the discomfort you experience in response to the worrisome thought, and your natural inclination to take that thought seriously and resist it. When you resist the thought with your usual selection of anti-worry responses, this is when you once again experience the difficulty of The harder I try, the worse it gets.

And then the roar. That roar. The roar of the end of all hope.

Mother nature will balance things out but not if we interfere by destroying rainforests and overfishing the seas. That is where the real environmental catastrophe could occur.

Generating a neurotic pathology in many priests, and prompting many others to protect themselves and the institution instead of victims, clericalism, I will argue in this book, is both the root cause and the corrupter, the ongoing enabler of the present Catholic catastrophe. The priesthood itself is warped.

Though he'd never know for sure what had happened to them, his mind was super talented at imagining the absolute worst.

CATÁSTROFE Y RUINA UNIVERSAL: EXPERIMENTO LETAL

We exist for one purpose and one purpose only: to save the world from catastrophe.

WORLD IN CATASTROPHE: KILLZONE EXPERIMENT DEPARTMENT

She spoke to him before the world fell apart".

Glad you came," Gally said in his raspy voice. "Because the end of the world is upon us.

One day the whole world—every town and city—will be like it was in North Carolina. And then everyone will be dead.

There's that short moment that seems to last a lifetime when Mark sees the wall of water rushing down the steps of the subtrans station, like a stampede of white, frothy horses. He wonders a thousand things. How he got there. What's happened above them in the city. Is his family dead. What does the future hold. What's it like to drown.

Thomas didn't have time to shout a warning before the massive piece of rock landed on a group of people, crushing them as it broke in half. He stood for a moment, speechless as blood oozed out from the edges and pooled on the stone floor.

To be strong in the Force is one thing. But to believe oneself to be all-powerful is to invite catastrophe. Remember, that even in the ethereal realm we inhabit, the unforeseen can occur.

superbolide meteors, averaging seventeen to twenty meters across. They each struck with the energy equivalent of eight atomic bombs.