Al Gore Quotes

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.

There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion, and missteps. One hopes they won’t be fatal.

I think one of the joys of disaster movies is not knowing who's going to live and who's going to die.

The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

The warnings of the last 4 years have been ignored. As a result, every single alternative before us is accompanied by grave risks.

Socially relevant risk is not uncertainty of outcome, or violence of event, or toxicity of substance, or anything of the sort. Rather, it is perceived inability to cope satisfactorily with the world around us.

Don’t ignore planning for unlikely events. Over long periods of time the highly improbable gets more probable to occur at least once.

Crises there will continue to be ... Threats of new kinds will always appear.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

Life is anything but predictable.

When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.

You can't predict things in football because anything can happen.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

I don't think anyone can ever predict a phenomenon. It's not something you can bank on.

It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

Global warming, climate change, it's a total.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

The world is on fire.