#catastrophe

The real catastrophes are always different-unimaginable, unprepared for, unknown ↗

— Karen Thompson Walker

#age

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback. ↗

— Len Wein

#complete #even #failures #feedback #finished

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe. ↗

— Edward Grey

#catastrophe #cause #day #emperor #german

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

#dismantling #extensive #ingredients #institutions #program

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#catastrophe #hundred #i #new #new york

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#great #privileges #terrace #witness

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

— Bill Frist

#congress #forward #instead #looms #policies

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. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#american #american people #been #catastrophe #condolences

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#better #catastrophes #century #cnn #consequence

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#comfort #equivalent #general #notion #particular