Quotes About Catastrophe

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?

Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

Lani regarded smudged mascara as a worse catastrophe than nuclear holocaust.

The number of books destroyed or spoiled was equal to the entirety of fifteen typical branch libraries. It was the greatest loss to any public library in the history of the United States.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

god's grace didn't mean life skipped over the hard parts. Grace meant that when life threatened to drown him, in those catastrophic moments, God enclosed him in the pocket of His embrace. Noah had learned that the onlyl way to discover God's sufficient grace was to let the storm buffet, then cling to God, like David said in Psalm 62:5,"I wait quietly before God, for my hope is in Him."

El foc s'escampa! I si nosaltres cremem, us cremareu amb nosaltres!

PART I THE ASHES

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

If one wants to talk about the end of the world, the apocalypse, you're talking about the world itself. It's not Southern California breaking into the sea. The story is global, and it requires that kind of approach.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

Things break on a small scale all the time, in order to avoid large-scale generalized catastrophes.

When we look at risks in Extremistan, we don't look at evidence (evidence comes too late), we look at potential damage: never has the world been more prone to more damage; never.

setting wealth back by several decades

Blew up? How?' 'We dropped a shielded runcible gate into it while the gate at the other end was moved into position before a stream of near-light-speed asteroids flung out from a spinning black hole.

Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called 'pigheadedness'.

Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world." Both Nick and Mikey just stared at her. "What do you mean … end?" asked Mikey. "End means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth into a dead planet …

THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason.