Quotes About Cataclysmic

Glad you came," Gally said in his raspy voice. "Because the end of the world is upon us.

Love was by its very nature disruptive, cataclysmic; and if it was not, then it was not love.

Whereas it seemed to me, back then, in the absolutism of my condition, that love had nothing to do with practicality; indeed, was its polar opposite. And the fact that it showed contempt for such banal considerations was part of its glory. Love was by its very nature disruptive, cataclysmic; and if it was not, then it was not love.

El amor, por su propia naturaleza, era perturbador, cataclísmico; y, si no, no era amor.

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equal to the natural cataclysmic order that surrounds it.

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

One: Mankind's activities are causing the disintegration (a word chosen carefully) of natural ecosystems at a cataclysmic rate.

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

He coughs wetly and wipes his mouth with a monogrammed hankie. When he's done I say, "What kind of event?" "Stupendous," says Sandoval. "Cataclysmic.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

Thunderstorms were what death, and dramatic events, generally should be like, but usually were not; the idea that our life's dramas rarely look as dramatic as they are. Our most cataclysmic moments are typically free of gravitas, of necessary thunder; a person dies, but instead of the sky darkening and lightning striking, the sun continues to shine and the birds to sing.

diluvian adj. another term for DILUVIAL.

Legends from different peoples living in all corners of the Earth seem to tell essentially the same story—in the distant past, certain individuals with "godlike" powers molded mankind into a civilized state following a period of cataclysmic upheaval.

groupuscules making their lonely cataclysmic prophesies.

Behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven.

There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.

Then, just at the peak of complacency, when it was assumed that the climate of the world had changed forever, when the conductor of the philharmonic played Vivaldi's Four Seasons and left out an entire movement, and when to children of a young age stories of winter were told as if they were fairy tales, New York was hit by a cataclysmic freeze, and, once again, people huddled together to talk fearfully of the millennium.

Mr. Stallone and Ms. Stone… a meeting as disastrous as the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic

To have solely one thought, but it to be capable of destroy the universe

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

The worst time to take a survey is in the middle of a cataclysmic event.

seismic disasters known as earthquake storms,