Quotes About Catastrophe

Ipak, ništa tako ne može da natera ljude da pametno misle kao dobra katastrofa.

If he'd been able to imagine it, perhaps he could have saved himself from what was to come. A grief that would reshape his life the way a tsunami reshaped a coastline.

so Enki tells Atrahasis to build a boat, instructing him about

And Callie said this as someone whose life was a train wreck inside of a crashing airplane inside of the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb.

Calamity was ordained for man.

Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.

One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

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

When Mother Nature turns on us, I hope that she doesn't show the same compassion that we, humans, show to the environment and all the other life here on Earth.

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,' she said. 'Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.

if the emotional person is another man, it is the worst possible catastrophe. The societal fabric has been rent. A man would rather be shot by a firing squad than to break down in front of his fellows, and to witness such a breakdown is almost as bad a breach of decorum as to break down oneself.

Negative visualization does not have these drawbacks. We don't have to wait to engage in negative visualization the way we have to wait to be struck by a catastrophe. Being struck by a catastrophe can easily kill us; engaging in negative visualization can't. And because negative visualization can be done repeatedly, its beneficial effects, unlike those of a catastrophe, can last indefinitely.

atomic war n. thermonuclear or nuclear exchange

To subdue and crush the masses of a nation by military force, when all are unanimous in the determination to be free, is to attempt the imprisonment of a whole people; all such projects must be temporary and transient, and terminate in a catastrophe...

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

I think the rampant individualism of our current culture is a catastrophe. The emphasis on self—individual success, self-fulfillment, individual freedom, self-actualization—is a catastrophe.