Quotes About Catastrophe

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.

A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.

So punk wasn't about decay, punk was about the apocalypse. Punk was about annihilation.

Imagining the worst doesn't keep it from happening

I have seen many amazing things in my long and troubled life history. I have seen a series of corridors built entirely out of human skulls. I have seen a volcano erupt and send a wall of lava crawling towards a small village. I have seen a women I loved picked up by an enormous eagle and flown to its high mountain next. But I still cannot imagine what it was like to watch Aunt Josephine's house topple into Lake Lachrymose.

If everyone fought with fire, the entire world would go up in smoke.

I had seen buildings burn before, as part of my training and as part of my childhood. I had seen small homes and enormous mansions devoured by fire, and I had seen flames destroy factories and symphony halls and houses of worship. A school seems worse, I thought as the fire roared into the sky. Even when the school is empty, it's a terrible thing.

Your parents," Mr. Poe said, "have perished in a terrible fire.

really, really"—horrendous

One might say they are magnets for misfortune.

The end of the world.

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

The bombing of the main islands of Japan was now possible, and in the most massive of the raids, a firebombing of Tokyo, more than eighty thousand people died in the huge inferno in a single night.

This time the destruction was so complete... That nothing at all was left in the world Except one man And one woman And one flower

When ambition outstrips ability, that is always a recipe for disaster.

Pastor Elmore roared out, " Ã¢â'¬ËœOn that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened!' And why was that, my friends? Why did the Lord see fit to destroy his own creation, like a sculptor who smashes his clay with his fist, or a painter who slashes his canvas? Why, because it wasn't right and good! And does the pot revile its creator for this? And does the painting weep? No!

He blew himself up." "Get out! You mean like guts all over the place?" "Not all over the place," I said. "He was pretty well contained, all things considered.

cariño, eso es lo que pasa cuando te enamoras. Estás viendo una catástrofe de la naturaleza.

Honey, this is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.