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Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted

Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they’re pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted
– Aharon Appelfeld

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  2. Speak with your words and your message can be distorted… Speak with your actions and you’ll leave no doubt. – Steve Maraboli
  3. Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
  4. To live a selfish life is the fastest track to catastrophe – Sunday Adelaja
  5. As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe. – Katarina Bivald
  6. War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost. – Ruta Sepetys
  7. It’s a blip, not a catastrophe. – Donald J Trump
  8. Not every minor inconvenience leads to a major catastrophe. – Lynn C Tolson
  9. Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.] – Gianrico Carofiglio
  10. Whenever a nation or a group of people is devoid of light, catastrophe comes, calamity hits, there is danger everywhere. – Sunday Adelaja
  11. Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. – Yukio Mishima
  12. Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions. – Mignon McLaughlin
  13. One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe. – Billy Graham
  14. Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece. – ER Eddison
  15. Don’t you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good. – KJ Wignall
  16. Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe. – Bidemi MarkMordi
  17. People, imperfect and corruptible are society’s building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting. – AE Samaan
  18. Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe. – Victor Hugo
  19. Without emotion, all thoughts or words are powerless. – Mensah Oteh
  20. Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. – Haruki Murakami
  21. We underestimate ourselves, we do not believe in our strength, abilities, and talents and we have a distorted vision of ourselves – Sunday Adelaja
  22. There are many things that have distorted the person inside you from what you were created to be – Sunday Adelaja
  23. When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities. – Moutasem Algharati
  24. To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism. – Gregory Hartley
  25. From history books you should at best believe just the punctuation. The rest is uncertain, incomplete, distorted, exaggerated or even fabricated. – AJ Beirens
  26. Aloneeverything changes.Some might call it distorted realitybut it’s exactly the place I need to be. – Ellen Hopkins
  27. We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters. – Sharon Salzberg
  28. We must accept the fact that we have distorted and constricted our lives as adults in accordance with our unconscious beliefs. – Lewis Engel
  29. There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light. – Lauren Kate
  30. The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion. – Allan Lokos
  31. The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape. – Daniel Keyes
  32. I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful. – Carl R Rogers
  33. But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a window-” – A Lee Martinez
  34. We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God’s goodness, but with sin that mirror fractured and the reflection is distorted. – Trip Lee
  35. Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language. – Nilantha Ilangamuwa
  36. History’s greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses. – michael p naughton
  37. Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted. – Duop Chak Wuol
  38. revenge is only sweet to those whom rancor have distorted their taste. – Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
  39. The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar. – Germany Kent
  40. Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering. – Viktor E Frankl

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