Top 484 Catastrophe Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.
Clinton appears to be the sole holdout in the Obama administration in understanding the catastrophe caused by its foreign policy in Libya.
The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.
Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.
Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.
Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?
A more robust approach to global warming is needed if we are to avoid catastrophe. Unlike the recent financial crisis, there is no bailout option for the earth's climate.
Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.
The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.
When I saw from Rome that catastrophe (brought by Yolanda) I had to be here. And on those very days I decided to come here. I am here to be with you – a little bit late, but I’m here.
When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.
I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.
As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.
Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It was horrendous.
Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.
Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.
Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.
The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.
These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
I think the Israelis are beginning to realize more that they are moving toward a one-state solution, which would be a catastrophe for Israel.
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.
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
If we don't get our relationship with the emerging People's Republic of China right, that is something that could lead to global catastrophe.
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?
When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.
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.
We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.
I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe
The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.
