#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

#about #any #bright #catastrophe #feeling

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

— Jules Romains

#category #history #human #phenomena #tends

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

#await #awareness #because #been #catastrophes

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

— Susan Sontag

#catastrophe #changing #described #heading #history

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

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 Bradley

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Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#financial #happen #just #liberalization #now

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

— Lord Acton

#announced #catastrophe #certain #every #feel

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

— Albert Einstein

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