"Catastrophic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me unthinkable, because I saw it would be a sudden and catastrophic incursion upon a cosmos of Law ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates
... with an extended forefinger and the knitted brows of one anticipating a catastrophic smash. The cyclist, who was sitting next the lamp, ducked and jumped across the bar. Everybody jumped, more or less. Miss Maybridge turned and screamed. For nearly three seconds the lamp remained still. A faint cry of mental distress came from Mr. Fotheringay. "I can't keep it ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells
... realize all this earth as it is, we should find ourselves in a land of miracles: we shall discover a new planet at the moment that we discover our own. Among all the strange things that men have forgotten, the most universal and catastrophic lapse of memory is that by which they have forgotten that they are ...
— The Defendant • G.K. Chesterton
... be very green, And our senses not too keen, If we can't say what we mean, Write in paper, magazine, Send petitions to the QUEEN, Get the House to intervene. Paris fashion's transmarine— Let us stop by quarantine Catastrophic Crinoline! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 • Various
... result ending in the defeat or victory of the whole campaign. The focus point of the Zards and the Canitaurs exists both on the philosophical and martial levels. On the philosophical level, it is the question as to what is the proper solution for remedying our current catastrophic situation. On one side the Pastites wish to correct the root of the problem by stopping its realization in the past, the Futurists, however, would venture into the future and brings its stabilization and completion back. On the military level, our ...
— The Revolutions of Time • Jonathan Dunn
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