Quotes of: Natural-disasters Keyword

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Stuart Chase

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

E.M. Forster

Over centuries, organised perpetrator groups have observed and studied the way in which extreme childhood traumas, such as accidents, bereavement, war, natural disasters, repeated hospitalisations and surgeries, and (most commonly) child abuse (sexua...

Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse

The principle of analogy is so simple, so natural, that everyone uses it in daily life. Imagine someone sitting down in front of the television after a long day at work. The first image he sees is that of a giant reptile squashing tall buildings. Is ...

Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?

...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they wer...

Robinson Crusoe

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion/The Natural History of Religion

Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.

How Nature Cures Comprising a New System of Hygiene; Also the Natural Food of Man

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of eve...

Johan Huizinga

For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,...

Victor Hugo

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

However, Hardy's relationship with nature is a dialectical one. While he indicates that he recognizes how human perception shapes nature, he nevertheless accepts nature as possessed of its own agency, as working through its cycle regardless of human ...

The Decline of the Goddess: Nature, Culture, and Women in Thomas Hardy's Fiction

Our instincts weren't built to handle the kind of power our species wields over the planet, nature has been playing rough with us for so long, maybe it is no surprise we are being so rough with her now.

Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

Get a Life

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground

Beautiful Disaster

He scanned my face with careful hope in his eyes. “You love me?” “It’s the tattoos,” I shrugged.

Beautiful Disaster

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Elizabeth Bishop

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Susan Sontag

Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!

The Rithmatist

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

The Moviegoer

Come on," I say, "let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.

The Lost Girl