Catastrophe quotes

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◆ I'm a complete catastrophe buzzing around you like a bumble bee.

- Hollywood Undead100

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

- H G Wells99

◆ 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.

- William Irwin Thompson99

◆ War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

- Albert Pike99

◆ Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

- Bill Frist99

◆ Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

- Andrew Coyle Bradley99

◆ The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

- Leonard Cohen99

◆ We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

- Hans-Georg Gadamer99

◆ The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

- Theodor Adorno99

◆ Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

- Charles Adams99

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

- Lord Acton99

◆ Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.

- Gerhard Kocher99

◆ I want you to believe-I do believe-that you did everything in your power to prevent the final catastrophe.

- Ernest Simpson99

◆ History is a race between education and catastrophe.

- H G Wells99

◆ One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

- George Sand99