31 quotes found
“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have ...”
“Front grace in the shadows”
“People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.”
“Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time.”
“Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.”
“I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a barit was tense.”
“We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.”
“The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.”
“Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.”
“Every step gets him closer to greatness...or disaster.”
“Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and gives them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and res...”
“Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept...”
“Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who dont have to.”
“Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!”
“The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.”
“Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.”
“You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.”
“Not having ice cream, she proclaimed, is the culmination of all disasters!”
“There had to be something new, some fresh angle. As the rain pattered down around him, Kapenda thought. What was the weirdest thing he'd seen since this all started? He'd been in the tiny town of C...”
“I had the vertiginous feeling one gets standing at the precipice of an unresolved plan, for I had brought Bon and myself to the brink of disaster without knowing how to save us. But was not this ho...”
