Worst Case Scenario Quotes - Page 2

• Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

  David Krieger

  Islamic, Cities, People

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• I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Fantasy, Horror, Genre

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• I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

  Conor Oberst

  Embrace, Cases, Scenarios

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• Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

  Michael J. Fox

  Doe, Flukes, Imagine

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• Many people think you shouldn't stop kids from being kids, and I agree, but no one wants the worst case scenario on their hands. Better safe than sorry I say.

  Raheem Jarbo

  Sorry, Kids, Thinking

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• I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

  Charlie Brooker

  Technology, Cases, Scenarios

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a barrel of laughs, isn't it? It makes The Day After look like friggin'...insert name of cheerful thing here. It was one of the things that made me really worry about worst-case scenarios. There's something impish and probably somewhat therapeutic about thinking about those things.

  Charlie Brooker

  Thinking, Names, Laughing

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.

  Stephen Harper

  Strong, Thinking, Government

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• Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic enrichment in Genus had been distributed equitably, across society, it could have been nirvana, a great world where people don't fear the diseases that we die from. The problems that arrive are more to do with resource hording than technology itself.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Technology, People, Healthy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt.

  Peter Kenyon

  Russia, Turkeys, Moscow

  "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Cases, Scenarios

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And the very important fact that I'm here to worry with you and go through all of this - every little bit of it - by your side, even your worst-case-scenario, should it somehow come to that. You wouldn't be doing any of it alone.' Her voice drops and she looks down at our hands, fingers entwined, resting on her lap. 'Whatever happens, there will always be us.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Hands, Your Side, Voice

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• Often think of the worst-case scenario, the "Eaten By Wolves" factor.

  Randy Pausch

  Thinking, Cases, Contingency

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cases, Happens, Ifs

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• Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Positive Thinking, Anxiety, Negative

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• Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that was a bust, I'll get a six-figure job at whatever company.' Risk is this outmoded idea - your parents might not understand that, but taking these types of risks doesn't have a downside.

  Drew Houston

  Jobs, Ideas, Work Out

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• She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this is why we have over-population problems. Why are idiots who annoy dirty chimps being protected?

  Karl Pilkington

  Dirty, Population Problem, Idiot

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.11, Canongate Books

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• In my mind, being overdressed is not a bad thing at all. What's the worst case scenario? That you are the best-dressed person in the room? Who cares!

  Rachel Zoe

  Style, Mind, Who Cares

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• So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.

  Roz Savage

  War, Views, Opposites

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• The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on - by the time today's six year olds are 60, such a scenario would see global warming already out of control.

  Mark Lynas

  Years, Climate, Amazon

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• Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.

  Willie Parker

  Thinking, Cases, Scenarios

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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