Catastrophe Quotes
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Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.
Thomas Sowell -
We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is — on the brink of catastrophe — torn by polarizing hate and how it’s a shame that we can’t work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!
Jon Stewart
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To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this great state should endure this kind of catastrophe. Government failed you. Federal, state and local leaders by breaking the trust you placed in us.
Rick Snyder -
Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
Bill Gates -
We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.
Gershom Scholem -
Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.
Willem Buiter -
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
Sumner Redstone -
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
Jules Romains
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I think the Israelis are beginning to realize more that they are moving toward a one-state solution, which would be a catastrophe for Israel.
Jimmy Carter -
Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.
Thomas Sowell -
We have a flooding catastrophe, but we also have another catastrophe ... our exceptionally high unemployment.
Edmund Stoiber -
Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.
Rex Stout