Quotes About Catastrophe

they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

His head .. it exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skull.

Can a mordern city burn,' he asked Tom. 'One made mostly of concrete and metal and glass? Could it burn the way Chicago did after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern?

What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

This is what catastrophe does: it strips away the fluff and the white noise, the should I really and the but what if.

In related ways, 24/7 is inseparable from environmental catastrophe in its declaration of permanent expenditure, of endless wastefulness for its sustenance, in its terminal disruption of the cycles and seasons on which ecological integrity depends.

Benny Imura was appalled to learn that the Apocalypse came with homework. "Why do we have to study this stuff?" he demanded. "We already know what happened. People started turning into zoms, the zoms ate just about everyone, everyone who dies becomes a zom, so the moral of this tale is: Try not to die.

Well, maybe that would have happened if the world hadn't ended. It did. The world ended. On a friday.

A prophet does not foretell. He warns. A prophet does not speak to predict future catastrophe but rather to avert it. If a prediction comes true it has succeeded. If a prophecy comes true it has failed.

Mr Lockwood,' he said slowly. 'It's like the end of the world.

Die Katastrophe war so verheerend, dass jede normale Reaktion unangemessen war.

Such a weapon goes far beyond any military objective and enters the range of very great natural catastrophes. By its very nature it cannot be confined to a military objective but becomes a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide

La enfermedad no es catástrofe sino danza de la que podrían estar ya surgiendo nuevas construcciones de la sensibilidad.»

The account of the Nakba (catastrophe) given by the refugees has been confirmed by documents preserved in Israeli archives. There

The pages of European history are, so to speak, bespattered with the records of Black Mondays and Black Thursdays. It may be that, in this twentieth century, almost daily acquaintance with large-scale catastrophe has deprived the custom of its point. Black and white have tended to merge into a drab grey.

seismic disasters known as earthquake storms,

Korra slid from Naga's back and let her gaze drift over the once-magnificent arena. Several of its tall spires were charred. The gilded glass dome that had been the arena's crowning glory was shattered. The jagged iron girders that had formed the dome's skeleton stuck out from the roof at odd angles, the metal gnarled and twisted. Korra shivered as she took in the damage, and a cold feeling of foreboding crept over her.

Sometimes life turns its back to people. A misfortune, a physical accident or a mental emergency can take them by surprise. Similar to the unexpected assault on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in New York, which took a whole nation by surprise , the lives of individuals can be suddenly disrupted.

There's nothing so bad that it can't grow worse. There's no limit to how bad things can be.

I chose the San Francisco earthquake because it's very interesting- although maybe that isn't the word you'd have used if you'd actually been in San Francisco on April 18, 1906. You wouldn't have said, "Wow! This is an interesting earthquake!" while you were running for your life to get away from the collapsing buildings or fires that swept across the city afterward.

It took the Fire Brigade a day and a half to secure the remains of the house enough to recover Crew Cut's body, which was described by Dr Jennifer Vaughan as 'suffering from crush trauma' and by Dr Walid as 'mostly flat'.

In 1666, following an unfortunate workplace accident, the city of London burnt down.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.