Quotes About Catastrophe

If the choice on offer is between pasta primavera mix with freeze-dried chicken chunks and being among the first wave of deaths in the apocalypse, I hereby enthusiastically place my order for oblivion.

I'm the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake…. When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales! I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder!

Goodfellow snickered."Wouldn't be any fun if we didn't run into some sort of catastrophe." Pulling his dagger, he waved me on."After you, your highness.Puck to Ash

All the electronic devices are powered by white smoke. When smoke goes out, device is dead.

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'.

It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts.

Hyperbolic statements will be the death of us all

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

I will murder the world.

There's a hole as big as Lucifer's arse in the hull where the powder barrels blew out,

The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster.

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

So that was what had happened before the survey. Now we're here, ready for the next major disaster. (Spoiler alert.)

It looked like a clip from an action series, right before something drastic happened. Then something drastic happened.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Buildings had collapsed-once tall and mighty, now headstones for the thousands buried underneath.

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

This was more than an unexpected turn. It was an unchecked slide into hell.

It looks so peaceful," said Annie. "You can never be sure," said Jack. "Remember, Pompeii looked peaceful before the volcano went off.

Ontare ruina!

I call disaster what does not have the last limit: that which drags the last in the disaster.