“ Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? ”
- Elias Canetti- Copy
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“ Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ”
- Emanuel Swedenborg- Copy
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“ Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. ”
- Edward Teller- Copy
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“ This was such a massive catastrophe. I don't know that anything could have been done differently. We had a lot of heroic people. ”
- John Walsh- Copy
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“ The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. ”
- Benjamin Mays- Copy
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“ Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. ”
- Gandhi- Copy
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“ Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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“ A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. ”
- Le Corbusier- Copy
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“ It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture… ”
- Benjamin E. Mayes- Copy
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“ Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ”
- Ernest Dimnet- Copy
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“ Murphy's Law: "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.". ”
- Edward A. Murphy Jr- Copy
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“ When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror. ”
- Margaret Turnbull- Copy
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“ A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
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“ AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceeded to increase. ”
- Man Ray- Copy
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“ If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today, we sigh. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
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“ It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. ”
- George Sand- Copy
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“ Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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