Center Disaster Site

Famous quotes containing the words center, disaster and/or site:

    Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
    About the center of the silent Word.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    From disaster good fortune comes, and in good fortune lurks disaster.
    Chinese proverb.

    That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is. When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)