Frei Otto

We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.

German Architect

Francois Hollande

I can't separate the fight with terrorism and the fight against global warming. These are two big global challenges we have to face up to because we have to leave our children more than a world free of terror; we also owe them a planet protected from catastrophes.

French Statesman

Haile Selassie

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

Ethiopian Statesman

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

American Judge

Parker Palmer

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.

American Educator

Richard Bausch

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.

American Novelist

Susan Sontag

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.

American Author

Kristin Scott Thomas

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

English Actress

Adrien Brody

I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.

American Actor

Michael J. Fox

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

Canadian Actor

Use 'catastrophe' to describe events with immediate, widespread impact.

Sudden and Severe

Highlighting significant loss, physical suffering, or fatalities.

Human Suffering

Refers usually to large-scale events, not personal misfortune.

Not Personal

Suggests an endeavor or project has failed completely.

Complete Failure

Avoid trivializing the word by using it for minor problems.

Not Everyday Use

Emphasizes the negative outcomes of an action or decision.

Negative Consequence

Used in literature to signal the concluding dramatic event.

Literary Finality

In literary contexts, often ties to a tragic or fatal ending.

Tragic Connotations

Marks the apex of tension or conflict in a story.

Climactic Moment

 But there are other stories that are not about catastrophe, and it is very important, it is just as important, to talk about them. I've always felt that it is impossible to engage properly with a place or a person without engaging with all of the stories of that place and that person.

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 you can't touch, you can't extract and, I think most importantly -- this is what I think -- you can't see it. I think it's being hidden on purpose. Now this is such a catastrophe and such a mess that lots of stuff is leaking out on the edges of the information stream.

Carl Safina: The oil...

 survive in this terrain filming is cut short by a catastrophe one that shows how precarious all life is in these mountains I was actually starting to enjoy being here with the crew and and seeing the leopard hogs on had one of its largest earthquakes ever in the

A Big Cat Wild Kill & a...

 Thankfully, continuous advancements in computer simulations offer a number of ways to avoid catastrophe. By approximating the solutions with increasingly powerful processors, we can more confidently predict the motion of n-body systems on long time-scales.

Newton’s three-body...

 and they say that we can't do it before the catastrophe, but we need to start laying the foundations so that when the disaster strikes, we can react quickly. But people will just not have the motivation to do such a thing before the disaster strikes.

Nationalism vs....

 your private life or business life compared to not knowing it be truthful most people have a difficult time coming up with a single example now people push me and they say but you have to know if there's a catastrophe somewhere on the

Four reasons you should...

 could suffocate of carbon dioxide. A limnic catastrophe of the lake would be really unimaginable. It happens every thousand years, every millennium, that all life is extinct around that lake. But the surrounding of the volcano

Carsten Peter: Inside...

 Nowadays, we avoid such agricultural catastrophes with the help of pesticides. Those are a range of manmade chemicals that control insects, unwanted weeds, funguses, rodents, and bacteria that may threaten our food supply.

Do we really need...

 was the catastrophe of my behavior and thinking. So I asked some sober friends for help, and I turned to a higher power. One acronym for God is the "gift of desperation," G-O-D, or as a sober friend put it,

12 truths I learned from...

 Humanity now is in a race between catastrophe and consciousness. The psychedelic renaissance is here to help consciousness triumph. And now, if you all just look under your seats Just joking!

Catastrophe

A sudden event that causes a lot of damage or a lot of suffering.

Often appears as...

A failure or unpleasant occurrence.

Often appears as...

The final event of the dramatic action, especially of a tragedy.

Often appears as...

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Sudden and Severe

Human Suffering

Not Personal

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