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

Susan Sontag

Mots clés reading books literature science-fiction sci-fi disaster



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How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

Christopher Buckley

Mots clés disaster



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The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved.

Rebecca Solnit

Mots clés hope disaster altruism



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This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience. Others recognize it, grasp it, and make something of it, and long-term social and political transformations, both good and bad, arise from the wreckage. The door to this ear's potential paradises is in hell.

Rebecca Solnit

Mots clés hell paradise disaster 9



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The lamp tipped over, nailing Kane in the head.
Sabin shook his head. The man was a walking disaster Literally. Whenever Kane stepped into a room, things went to hell pretty quickly. Sabin expected the ceiling to cave in any moment. And yea, it had happened before.

Gena Showalter

Mots clés humor disaster lords-of-the-underworld kane



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Every step gets him closer to greatness...or disaster.

Jody Feldman

Mots clés greatness positive disaster meaningful



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You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

Kim Edwards

Mots clés life disaster avert



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And she thought then how strange it was that disaster—the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face—could be at times, such a thing of beauty.

Anita Shreve

Mots clés beauty disaster



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A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

Vera Nazarian

Mots clés thought assumptions spirit insight disaster disasters forge mindset earthquake tornado natural-disasters



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The few trees still upright were stripped of their branches, lonely flagpoles without a nation to claim them.

Mike Mullin

Mots clés trees disaster volcano ashfall



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