Top 240 Catastrophic Quotes & Sayings

This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system.

The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address.

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

Climate change is there as a reminder that we can get richer and safer societies that are also consuming more and more to the point where the stability of Earth's systems is being challenged at potentially catastrophic levels. I don't think we can stop that. Just the very same worries I have about prediction on the positive progressive side - I mean, predictions that say we'll be great, we'll be fine - also apply to predictions that are too catastrophic. I'm not sure we get those predictions right either.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases.

I know the feeling after a catastrophic loss, to be so close and have it all just end.

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

In my Ph.D. thesis, written in 1989, I discussed the fact that when a civilization develops the technology to prevent catastrophic asteroid impacts, it marks a significant moment in the evolution of the planet.

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry.

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.

Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.

There is this thing called catastrophic thinking - you start thinking that something catastrophic is going to happen. I get on a plane and I think it's going to crash, I just know it's going to crash, so you're petrified.

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

I think we could very easily suffer a seriously catastrophic cyber event.

Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine.

The fact that some people can push others to the point of thinking that their lives are not worthy is catastrophic.

Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

Decades of mismanagement have left our nation's forests vulnerable to insects and disease and ripe for catastrophic wildfires.

Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.

If you haven’t noticed the Canadians, when they need a big operation, when something happens, they come into the United States in many cases because their system is so slow. It’s catastrophic in certain ways.

Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.

Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

A victory for the Taliban in Afghanistan would have catastrophic consequences for the world - particularly for South Asia, for Central Asia, and for the Middle East.

We must act now to make sure fresh water is available to everyone, no matter where they live. The consequences of doing nothing will be even more catastrophic.

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

Romantic comedies, if done badly, can be catastrophic.

People working on climate change should prepare for catastrophic success.

I don't think people realise how important it is to have your blood pressure checked. Stroke is so sudden, so catastrophic.

If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy would be catastrophic.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

I welcome the Independent Group as it is committed to saving the country from a catastrophic hard Brexit.

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

It has always been clear that any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic humanitarian consequences.

Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism.

Catastrophic health shocks do enormous damage to families both economically and otherwise, and are easy to insure, because nobody gets them on purpose. On the other hand, insurance policies that only treat certain catastrophic illnesses are hard to comprehend, especially of you are illiterate and unused to the legalistic nature of exclusions etc.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

I benched up to 500 pounds one day and decided that was enough because I knew the risk of a pec tear or a shoulder injury would be catastrophic to my bodybuilding career.

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.