Catastrophe Quotes - Page 2

That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news is in Pakistan, the city manages to beat that in the frequency of catastrophes.

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it's a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

Floating high on the waters of catastrophe

It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.

You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.

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

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.