#disaster

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #artist #craftiness #craftsmanship #crafty

Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#procrastination #time-management #procrastination

So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature." "It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin," I said. "My bravery exceeds my good sense," he said. ↗

— Lee Goldberg

#nature #phobia #death

I always hated it when TV reporters stuck a microphone in the faces of people who'd just lost a home or a loved one, wanting to know how they felt. They felt like shit. They hurt, and they didn't know how they were going to get through the night. They wanted to scream and cry and hit the guy with the microphone. ↗

— Suzanne Johnson

#stupidity #love

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#disaster #disasters #earthquake #forge #insight

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question -- not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#cruelty #deism #disaster #god #jehovah

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#absorb #act #disaster #had #handle

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#everyone #everything #famine #had #i

Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine. ↗

— Daisy Donovan

#bit #disaster #him #his #i

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody. ↗

— Natalia Ginzburg

#before #disaster #everybody #fates #intimately