Quotes of: Natural-disaster Keyword

And I've been thinking: if the human race manages to destroy itself, as it often seems to want to do, or if some great disaster comes, as it did for the dinosaurs, then the birds will still manage to survive. When our gardens and fields and farms and...

My Name is Mina

It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed, not one inhabitant in any of these worlds considered for a moment the possibility of resistance. In every case the attitude to disaster seemed to exp...

Star Maker

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid ...

Middlesex

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it. Becoming: an agony without an ending.The older I grow, the less I enjoy performing my little Hamlet. The desire to die was my one and only concern; to i...

Emil Cioran

Life is a winding mess full of incredible tribulation and nightmarish trials and testing fields. But there is reason for great joy and great peace in the storm of present Earth, in this opaque infinitely complex, though desperately simple sin infeste...

Justin Steckbauer

Brian Clough: What are you doing? You weren't supposed to *accept* our resignations! Sam Longson: Shouldn't bloody well offer them, then, should you? Brian Clough: Look, you can't get rid of us. It would be a disaster for the club. For the whole of D...

The Damned United

Sally: I had the most terrible vision. Jack Skellington: That's splendid! Sally: No - it was about your Christmas. There was smoke... and fire! Jack Skellington: That's not *my* Christmas! *My* Christmas is filled with laughter, and joy... and this: ...

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Virgil: You know, I can't believe you were dumb enough to come down here. Now you're stuck here for the storm. That was dumb, hot rod. Real dumb. Lindsey Brigman: I didn't come down here to fight with you. Virgil: Yeah? Well, why did you come down th...

The Abyss

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Cosmic Trigger 2: Down to Earth

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

Chaos: Making a New Science

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

The Da Vinci Code

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

Daemon

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The Education of Henry Adams

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

The Existence Of God

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

The Forgotten Garden

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

The Flinch

...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...

A Familiar Rain

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

The Fault in Our Stars

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

A Happy Death

Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.

Blood