Quotes About Catastrophe

Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

Fiver hung onto my arm as if I was the last boat on the Lusitania.

About the only thing we can imagine is catastrophe.

celled. Then a catastrophe occurred (in the sense of sudden change), a dramatic increase in biodiversity, an anti-extinction, if you will. In a flash, there were not just some animal forms, but all of them. In the fossil record, all modern body types appear together at this moment. We don't know why this happened when it did. It's likely that the explosion had to wait until oxygen levels rose high enough to support the greater energy needs of larger bodies,

The exact kill mechanisms are still being worked out, but the chronology has now convincingly implicated the volcanic culprit. At just the precise geological moment when most species suddenly dropped dead, a hot plume rising from the mantle caused enormous floods of volcanic magma to pour forth from the Siberian ground, warming Earth, acidifying the oceans, and creating a host of other extreme environmental changes. Most of life just couldn't cope. Whether

The catastrophe of every socialist scheme in the 20th century has had a devastating effect on leftwing optimism and has replaced it with the corrosive nihilism that makes it impossible for most leftists to defend a country which, compared to the socialist paradises, is a veritable heaven on earth. All that remains of the revolutionary project is the bitter hatred of the society its exponents inhabit, and their destructive will to bring it down.

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

disaster, a word that comes from the French des astres, or "from the stars.

You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.

If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

When in place of love you have grieves. And in place of glory nonfulfillment of hopes you earn, know that it's a natural catastrophe preparing you for distinguished conditions." - Darmie Orem

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.