Pliny the Elder Quotes

Brazil is living the last hours of Pompeii.

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, … vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.

I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

The sky is falling. No, I'm tipping over backwards.

Everything is still falling apart.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7-building 7, which collapsed in on itself-it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes-7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.

Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

When the ground starts moving, all bets are off.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

If you have conflicts, everything breaks down in society. Kids can't go to school. Basic health can't be looked after. Every aspect of society falls apart.

I have given my all Catch me catch me I think I'm gonna fall

Without thinking, I grab Al's arm and squeeze it as tightly as I can. I just need something to hold on to. Blood runs down the side of Christina's face and splatters on the ground next to her cheek. This is the first time I have ever prayed for someone to fall unconscious.... Al frees his hand and pulls me tight to his side. I clench my teeth to keep from crying out.

Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

I watched the mighty skyline fall

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster.

The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.