Quotes About Catastrophe

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.

Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

It was now just after 1:30 a.m. Ten of the Titanic's sixteen regular lifeboats had departed, carrying approximately 330 people—only a fraction of the 2,209 on board. To the passengers still on deck, the downward slope toward the bow was now very apparent. Yet many of them, the first-class men in particular, still believed that the ship would last till morning and that help would arrive

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Auch dies ein vertrautes Element - das Grauen, das er nicht sehen kann. Aus sicherer Entfernung beobachtete Katastrophen. Dem vielfachen Tod zuschauen, aber niemanden sterben sehen. Kein Blut, keine Schreie, überhaupt keine menschlichen Gestalten, nur die willfährige, in die Leere entlassene Phantasie.

Indiscriminate firebombing of the urban centers continued and intensified.

Yep, Atlanta was burning. Again.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

The end of the world is announced with a kind word.

There must come a point where so much has been turned to rubble that ruining a little more makes no difference. It's possible that point has already been reached. Does a person work the same way?

mountainside and destroyed the hut in which the grain was

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

Clinton appears to be the sole holdout in the Obama administration in understanding the catastrophe caused by its foreign policy in Libya.

Do your zombies eat brains? Are they horrible and scary? They're only sad.

What did I tell you, Fanny, about air-raids not killing people. Here we are, right as rain. My bed simply went through the floor, Plon-plon and I went on it, most comfortable.

And so does pity lead straight to disaster.

what twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?

A few days later, shortly after midnight, Cabestany's warehouse in Pueblo Nuevo burned down to its foundations. And for free.

Esercito, matrimonio, Chiesa e banca: i quattro cavalieri dell'apocalisse.