#catastrophes

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

— Karen Thompson Walker

#age

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#ancient #catastrophes #desolation #despair #diseases

The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force. ↗

— Otto Schily

#become #been #catastrophes #during #force

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#basically #catastrophes #everything #headed #major

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#catastrophes #exclusively #fabulous #happens #inheritances

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

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes. ↗

— Rosalia de Castro

#breakthroughs #catastrophes #followed #great

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

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

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

— Georges Clemenceau

#results #series #victory #war