Harry Chapin Quotes

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

The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

If we do not, it will end in bloodshed ... most probably.

I don't think I'm the only person who sees a cataclysm coming, but I think I'm the only person saying it, and I think that scares people.

Oh--won't we party hard when L.A. goes kersplash?...L.A. fell in the ocean?... There is a God. He loves us all so much.

How do you fall into a lion's den, that is my first question there, you think you would be extra carefull around a den of lions.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

Whatever you do....don't fall asleep.

Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

Tempt not a desperate man

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

Delay always breeds danger.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

We haven't seen a real volcanic event at least in 74,000 years - [Mount Toba] in Indonesia, in Sumatra, where the crater itself is 100 kilometers across. It was so monumental, what happened, that for a very long time the entire atmosphere of our planet was darkened. It's not the lava and the heat per se; it's the obscuring of the entire atmosphere, and it made it very difficult for the human race to survive.

Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are." "Land mines?