#catastrophe

It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised. ↗

— Elin Hilderbrand

#surprise #love

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

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#catastrophes #destroyed #itself #past #presents

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#aspect #bush #bush presidency #catastrophe #every

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. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#clinical #conversations #days #depression #finds

History is a race between education and catastrophe. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#catastrophe #education #history #race

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#environmental #knowingly #nuclear #nuclear war #our

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe. ↗

— Edward Grey

#catastrophe #cause #day #emperor #german

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms. ↗

— Bill Frist

#congress #forward #instead #looms #policies

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. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#american #american people #been #catastrophe #condolences