#catastrophe

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand. ↗

— James Payn

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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. ↗

— Jules Romains

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I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

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Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#delivered #found #i #life #me

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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

— Susan Sontag

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All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected. ↗

— Albert Speer

#army #before #being #bring #catastrophe

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

— George Sand

#catastrophe #end #goal #journey

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#catastrophes #deaths #diseases #kill #laugh