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“Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.”

Needs Believe Art Feelings Reality Religious Ability Quality Pure Art Is Capacity Court Longing Disaster Ideology Realization Translate Outstanding Longing For God

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.”

Ifs Men Should Kind Important Belief Work Patient Medical Disaster All Kinds Nervous Holiday Symptoms Breakdown Nervous Breakdown

Author:Bertrand Russell

“If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.”

“The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.”

Men Doe Running He Man Caught Disaster

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Pride and excess bring disaster for man.”

Men Pride Disaster Excess

Book:Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works

Source: Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works

“Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.”

World Terrorism Disaster Ice Collectives Genocide Flu Civilisation Skating Orderly Frail Tsunami Skating On Thin Ice

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.”

Mind Film Media Television Offers Succeed Demand Mass Madness Aim Presses Radio Disaster Concentration Boss Distraction Maximum Antidote Mass Media Film And Television

Book:Art against ideology

Source: Art against ideology

“If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.”

People Ifs Groups Disaster

Author:David Cronenberg

“If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.”

Ifs Has Beens Results Media Revolution Medical Disaster Reports Tragic Catastrophe Rebellious Collaborators Sexual Revolution

Author:Pat Buchanan

“Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.”

People Should Creating Plant Seeds Disaster Allowing Magnificent

Author:Malcolm Mclaren

“I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.”

People Has Beens Imagine Complexes Disaster Admire

Author:Nathalie Sarraute

“We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.”

Made Actors Games Growth Industry Disaster Made It Movie Parlor Disaster Movie Parlor Games

Author:Eugene Kennedy

“Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.”

Would Be Economy Europe Disaster Internals Protectionism

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water. Don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.”

Water Loses Too Much Feet Tears Survival Guides Disaster Pairs Combat Boots Tire Fluid Pumps Combat Boots

Author:Max Brooks

“I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.”

Children Ends School Disaster Drunk Principal Juniors Junior High Senile

Author:Jonathan Brandis

“I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.”

Firsts Home Memories Forget Love Is Mom Cooking Crowds My Mom Disaster Sunday Ingredients Cake Improving Lemons Bad Memories Pleasers Drizzle Lasagna Crowd Pleasers

Author:Katy B

“There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.”

Firsts Two Night Realizing Happened Miracle Finals Disaster Managers Relief Opera Every Night Sigh Curtains Sigh Of Relief

Author:Rudolf Bing

“I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.”

People War Lost Natural Disaster Famine Natural Disaster Lost Everything

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.”

Has Beens Deals Team Office London Billions Disaster Brown Taxpayers Modernisation

Author:Vince Cable

“The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.”

Used Natural Four Alive College Murder Victim Disaster Planes Survivor Loved Ones Crash Conferences Boston June Natural Disaster Plane Crashes Murder Victims

Author:Godfried Danneels

“The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.”

Ifs Problem Government Form Nations United Moral Democracy Available Disaster United Nations Forms Of Government

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.”

Art Watches Media Fronts Entertainment Disaster Famine

Author:Jackson Browne

“Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.”

Shows Science Disaster Statistics

Book:The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.”

People Thinking Men Country Political Brain Willing Benefits Endure Disaster Radical Nerves Stagnation

Author:William Randolph Hearst

“Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.”

Long Use Language Term Impact Disaster Long Term Dimensions Texting

Author:David Crystal

“I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt.”

Thinking States Problem Would Be Care United United States Republican Debt Disaster Romney

Author:Marc Faber

“The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.”

Years Results Environment Fate Baby Politician Addiction Ill Focused Oil Accidents Disaster Locals Buying Doomed Fisherman Drills Infamous Drilling

Author:Robert Greenwald

“Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.”

Ends Dangerous Areas Army Complexes Disaster

Author:Chuck Hagel

“I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?”

People Ifs Thinking Feels I Can Would Be Faces Waiting Nice Husband Disaster My Husband Feel Better Being Nice

Author:Felicity Huffman

“My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.”

Heart Play Light Loss Grief My Heart Chaos Disaster His Loss Hysterically Funny

Author:Linda Hamilton

“I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.”

Firsts Home Wounds Disaster Iron Vacation Magnet Bruises Cork Pineapples Cleavage Jellyfish Puncture First Anniversary

Author:Molly Harper

“After Skins I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.”

Bits Skins Disaster

Author:Nicholas Hoult

“The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.”

Years Firsts America Force Nations Natural Fire Military Crisis Disaster Governors Troops Flood Hurricanes Natural Disaster Wartime National Guard

Author:Russel Honore

“Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.”

Needs Different Done Helping Easy Decision Team Disaster Spells Founding Flexibility Flexible Making Decisions Launching Inefficiency

Author:Kathryn Minshew

“AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.”

Country Challenges Majors Aids Disaster Reaching Hiv

Author:Mangosuthu Buthelezi

“A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation.”

“Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past.”

Knows Has Beens Past Used Subjects Disaster Japan Did You Know Tsunami

Author:Junichiro Koizumi

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