Virginia Woolf Quotes
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.
Woolf, Virginia. The Voyage Out. Duckworth and Company, 1915.
Moscow was under attack by the Germans in the largest military battle of history. Bombing raids of the city were quite common at that time. This quotation is often used to illustrate how cold and calculating a leader Stalin was.
The George W. Bush administration had been caught ill prepared and with the exception of the Coast Guard, was slow and inadequate in responding to the emergency.
Federal Authorities arrived with press officers and a bevy of reporters and issued statements to the press while there were thousands of people in dire straits with many of them dying with no food, medical care or relocation from flooding water.
His reference was to economic crises where governments try to restrict outflow of capital, decrease inflationary behavior, invest more money, stop investing money, revaluing the currency, and others—are all hard to do politically and technically as well. Worse, they don’t often work very well.
Virtually every scientist and most laymen realized that the air quality of London was getting worse and worse. But the politicians did nothing until in 1952, it became so bad that people dies, traffic came to a standstill, business had to shut down and the city was just about paralyzed. Then they finally acted and improved the air quality immensely.
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
