We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the economics and indifference...the relief will be very political, in who gives how much (Bush offering 15 million, then 35 million under pressure, the cost of his inauguration and then 350 million under strong international pressure)...but the event itself transcends politics, the realm of things we cause and can work to prevent. We cannot wish that human beings were not subject to the forces of nature, including the mortality... we cannot wish for the seas to dry up, that the waves grow still, that the tectonic plates ceast to exist, that nature ceases to be beyond our abilities to predict and control... But the terms of that nature include such catastrophe and suffering, which leaves us with sorrow as not a problem to be solved but a fact. And it leaves us with compassion as the work we will never finish
Rebecca SolnitStichwörter: politics compassion disaster
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
Nadine GordimerStichwörter: success disaster inevitability
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
Criss JamiStichwörter: words pain poetry perspective sadness loneliness suffering creativity tragedy poets wit adversity lyrics artist illness imperfections disaster envy accidents craftsmanship hardships crafty craftiness
Let's get something straight; you're not a piece of shit, you're amazing. It doesn't matter who buys me drinks, or who asks me to dance, or who flirts with me. I'm going home with you. You've asked me to trust you, and you don't seem to trust me. - Abby, Beautiful Disaster
Jamie McGuireStichwörter: love disaster beautiful jamie travis abby mcguire
If this is really it...if you're really done with me...will you let me hold you tonight? - Travis
Jamie McGuireStichwörter: disaster beautiful break-up jamie travis abby mcguire
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.
Chuck PalahniukStichwörter: tragedy evolution disaster dissolution
What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included.
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: harmony disaster exclusion expansion fissure
There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.
Winston S. ChurchillStichwörter: success ruin disaster exaltation
Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.
Kim HarrisonStichwörter: prediction panic disaster pessimistic soon nice premonition
Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.
Karen Thompson WalkerStichwörter: future disaster fears catastrophes worries
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