#catastrophe

I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#death #folks #forget #hurricane #hurricane katrina

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#aptitude #catastrophe #encourage #games #good

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#results #series #victory #war

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#called #catastrophe #day #delta #every

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#around #band #become #believe #broken

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#catastrophes #fiction #fiction writers #foresee #inevitable

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#aspect #bush #bush presidency #catastrophe #every

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#catastrophes #destructive #errors #fatal #great

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of the ways. Whoever realises this will do cleaner work one way or the other. Technical perfection strives towards the calculable, human perfection towards the incalculable. Perfect mechanisms - around which, therefore, stands an uncanny but fascinating halo of brilliance - evoke both fear and Titanic pride which will be humbled not by insight but only by catastrophe. The fear and enthusiasm we experience at the sight of perfect mechanisms are in exact contrast to the happiness we feel at the sight of a perfect work of art. We sense an attack on our integrity, on our wholeness. That arms and legs are lost or harmed is not yet the greatest danger. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#catastrophe #human-perfection #technical-perfection #technology #titanism

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