The Catastrophist Quotes

#1. The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

William Whewell

#2. You might not be the brightest kid but the harder you try the brighter you are" - Ayah (The New Girl in the City)

Ayah

#3. On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

James Robertson

#4. Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away.

Denis Hayes

#5. Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.

Sheryl Sandberg

#6. She still remembers the effect a certain book can have on people at the right time in their lives. A book, at its most mundane,can be a loaded gun. At its most powerful, it can split the trunk of a tree, mend a broken heart, heal the sick, and topple a corrupt government.

Don Borchert

#7. Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.

Jim Shepard

#8. With love for mankind and hatred of sins.

Augustine Of Hippo

#9. I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

Ben Bernanke

#10. Lourdes Venard's White Bean Stew

C.A. Rowland

#11. Things come to those who wait
but only what was left by those who hussled

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