KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Catastrophe


Share this page on

Showing 1-10 of 36 quotes in the topic Catastrophe

I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.

~Adrien Brody

Topics: Carelessness Catastrophe Cruelty Lot Think World I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Syria may appear to be a small country, but it is just the type of entangled conflict that can lead to a world catastrophe. It does not take much imagination to see Syria as the Sarajevo of the 21st century, leading to world war.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Appear Catastrophe Century Conflict Country Does Imagination Just Lead Leading May Much See Small Small Country Syria Take Type War World World War 21St Century

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A director without a vision is a catastrophe.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Catastrophe Director Vision Without

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

~Albert Einstein

Topics: Atom Catastrophe Changed Drift Everything Modes Our Power Save Thinking Thus Toward Unleashed Unparalleled

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Bigger Bigger Picture Blind Carbon Catastrophe Change Climate Climate Change Co2 Court Everything Lens Letting Make Make No Mistake Mistake Obsession Our Picture Reductions See Short-Term Tackling Through Us Vital

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

~Ann Hood

Topics: Allow Anything Avoid Balloons Bay Bite Catastrophe Could Eat Fear Grapes Had Half Hamburgers Hard Keep Kids Might Mother Only Play Ridiculously Rope Strangle String Them Watch Who Worked

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

~Anna Lindh

Topics: About Assistance Case Catastrophe Couple Couple Of Years Ago Fighting Flooding Guides Instance Instead Local Much Properly Resources Same Spent Time Years Years Ago

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Antagonistic Between Bitter Catastrophe Caught Children Get Grown Kids Marriages Married Mess Most Parents Stayed Till Two Unhappy Us Were Years

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The U.S. is friends with dictatorial regimes, then invades places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and what happens afterwards is a catastrophe. In the place of their leaders, fundamentalist movements that use the name of Islam spring up, and all that's left is terror and bloodshed.

~Ayman Odeh

Topics: Afghanistan Afterwards Bloodshed Catastrophe Friends Fundamentalist Happens Iraq Islam Leaders Left Like Movements Name Place Places Regimes Spring Terror Then Up Use

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

Topics: Catastrophe Catastrophic Clear Controversy Countless Discretion Even Experiences Facts Judges Law Lawsuits Majority Men Most Often Rare Relates Vast Vast Majority

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Sigmund Freud Alexander The Great Alexander Hamilton Robert A. Heinlein Conor Mcgregor John Muir George S. Patton Bertrand Russell

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1588 - Thomas Hobbes

1856 - Booker T. Washington

1937 - Colin Powell

1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller

1827 - Joseph Lister

1834 - Frank Richard Stockton

1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne

1883 - Walter Huston

1900 - Spencer Tracy

1901 - Melvyn Douglas

Birthdays on April 5th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Art Car Design Easter Gardening Imagination Inspirational Medical