Life S Catastrophes Quotes

#1. 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.'

Parker Palmer

#2. And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

Cornel West

#3. Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

Norman Maclean

#4. Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

#5. All I do is make photos. It's my life.

Ryan McGinley

#6. All our anxieties relate to time.

Fulton J. Sheen

#7. To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

John Murray

#9. Take a look at anyone's life. Take a look at your own. In the long fold catastrophe that makes up your three-score years and ten you will encounter many cusp catastrophes along the way.

William Boyd

#10. I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler - and the technologies, too. Then we will have come full circle to something like life on the savanna.

Kirkpatrick Sale

#11. The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

Mason Cooley

#12. It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

Samantha Bond

#13. Despite catastrophes that defy the imagination, daily life goes on, forgetfulness seems to conquer memory, the world keeps mysteriously renewing itself.

Edward Hirsch

#14. For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

Oscar Wilde

#15. Everyone fears catastrophes and disasters and crashes and deaths, and people who attack you in the dark. You made all that worse for me. I felt something might happen which would separate me from you, and I could not deal with life without you. (23)

Sarah Ferguson

#16. In her life, moments of happiness were only gaps between mass catastrophes. She was now afraid of happiness.

Liu Cixin

#17. This is a leviathan I am about to ship out to sea ...

Victor Hugo

#18. Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime!

Stephen Colbert

#19. Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.

Daniel Goleman

#20. In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.

Kate Morton

#21. I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.

Philip Yancey

#22. Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry

#23. It was going to be our job to annoy someone?"
"I know - it's a dream come true!

Joel N. Ross

#24. Your life is just a series of catastrophes followed by a poorly executed sword swallowing side show

Shannon Lynette

#25. Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

Jean Anouilh

#26. I dream of a world where one could die for a comma.

Emil Cioran

#27. Why me?" He said finally. "Are you on some sort of mission to fuck up my life?"
"I try my best to avoid you."
"You're doing a hell of a job."
"I honestly don't mean to cause you problems."
"You don't cause problems. An unpiloted vampire causes problems. You cause catastrophes.

Ilona Andrews

#28. He has always been the kid who cries too easily and laughs too easily, the kid who begins giggling in church for no reason at all, who blinks hotly in shame and frustration whenever he misses a question in class, living in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes.

Kevin Brockmeier

#29. It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn't hit you, the slumlord you hadn't offended, the malaria you hadn't caught.

Katherine Boo

#30. It's not difficult to put a girl in bottle; especially when she thinks, she is the boss.

Aman Jassal

#31. The aroma of kaf," Turak said, "is almost as enjoyable as the flavor.

Robert Jordan

#32. I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

Tim LaHaye