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The apocalypse, I think, both reveals our humanity and our inhumanity, it doesn’t get more basic or fundamental than that. – Glenn Stutzky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The current' insect apocalypse' is really a death by a thousand cuts, pesticide use, land use modification and climate change are likely the major factors causing these global insect declines and all of these are due to human activities. I think it is in our best interest to try to mitigate as many of these as we can since every species on the planet is important. – Corrie Moreau	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I referred to it as a chalk apocalypse. – Brian Conrad	Found on CNN 3 years ago
As somebody who lived through the Vine apocalypse, I saw the panic, people having to say' The thing I make a living off of, that I love, is going away.'. – Brendon McNerney	Found on CNN 3 years ago
You can see injured people all over the streets in Beirut, glass all over the place, cars are damaged, it is like an apocalypse, it is very, very frightening what is happening right now, and people are freaking out. The emergency services are overwhelmed. – Bachar Ghattas	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We talk about the ability to stay home and be on lockdown, and we see people rushing to stores right now. That is not something you have in Syria -- you are not able to prepare for what appears to be an apocalypse and go get a month's worth of food, you're displaced, you are out in the open in a tent that might not even have a door and you can not protect yourself from these threats... [ including ] the major threat of infectious disease. – Amany Qaddour	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Thus, for some people, believing in apocalypse-like prophecies may help with this worry and anxiety by giving them something to focus on and a goal to strive toward, for religious prophecies this goal may involve positioning yourself to be one of the chosen ‘saved’ on the day the world ends, whereas for secular prophecies (such as Y2K) the goal may be focused on preparing to survive the potentially harsh conditions created by a catastrophic event. – Dr Arnold	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
To say that we were excited once we realized what we’d found is an understatement, we never suspected that Greek fragments of the First Apocalypse of James survived from antiquity. But there they were, right in front of us. – Geoffrey Smith	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
[But] there’s an inspirational sort of strength and endurance and quality of tenacity that he possesses, i’m much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who’s willing to step into the firing line. But I’ve learned from this guy. He has qualities that I would hope to emulate if [stuff] ever hit the fan. But I’d like to think I’ve done it on screen, maybe I could be a zombie-killer in real life if the apocalypse hit. But then, I’d obviously die a horrible, quick death in reality. – Andrew Lincoln	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This offers great promise for countering the zombie apocalypse in Chicago. – Chick Macal	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations, declared to Variety. But Ben-Hur isn't the only epic fail. Proving that Americans aren't impressed with much of Hollywood's summer slate, there have been multiple flops, including the Ghostbusters remake, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Star Trek Beyond, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan, Warcraft, X Men: Apocalypse, and the Steven Spielberg directed fantasy, The BFG. Still, as The Wrap just reported, North American ticket sales are up 2.84 percent over 2015 receipts at this time. The films have cumulatively earned an astounding $4.14 billion domestic in figures calculated from 108 days after the first Friday in May until Aug. 22. This summer suffered from the problem of perception versus reality. – Paul Dergarabedian of comScore	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I think there are so many characters in the X-Men universe that we could go and explore before we have to go and mash up with those guys, x-Men: Apocalypse. – Jennifer Lawrence	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Maybe 40 years ago people might not have appreciated a film like 'Apocalypse Now,' which was kind of unusual to say the least, if you're looking as an artist for some type of assurance that what you are doing is OK or going in the right direction then I think you have to wait for the judgment of time before you know. – Roman Coppola	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's not the apocalypse, it's not doom and gloom, and if it's not doom and gloom you can come out of the bunker and the first thing you do is take a sigh of relief and then you want to make money. – Barry Schwartz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There are many, and legitimate, contributing factors to the global economic slowdown narrative. These include China-related issues, such as the recent devaluation of its currency, the stock market's boom and bust in recent months, and slower GDP growth, i believe that this volatility is likely to remain with us, at least until the end of the year ... But for most long term investors, fears of a near-term financial apocalypse are overdone. – Nigel Green	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal? – Ernest Renan	added by anonymous 9 years ago

The apocalypse, I think, both reveals our humanity and our inhumanity, it doesn’t get more basic or fundamental than that.

– Glenn Stutzky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The current' insect apocalypse' is really a death by a thousand cuts, pesticide use, land use modification and climate change are likely the major factors causing these global insect declines and all of these are due to human activities. I think it is in our best interest to try to mitigate as many of these as we can since every species on the planet is important.

– Corrie Moreau

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I referred to it as a chalk apocalypse.

– Brian Conrad

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As somebody who lived through the Vine apocalypse, I saw the panic, people having to say' The thing I make a living off of, that I love, is going away.'.

– Brendon McNerney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You can see injured people all over the streets in Beirut, glass all over the place, cars are damaged, it is like an apocalypse, it is very, very frightening what is happening right now, and people are freaking out. The emergency services are overwhelmed.

– Bachar Ghattas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We talk about the ability to stay home and be on lockdown, and we see people rushing to stores right now. That is not something you have in Syria -- you are not able to prepare for what appears to be an apocalypse and go get a month's worth of food, you're displaced, you are out in the open in a tent that might not even have a door and you can not protect yourself from these threats... [ including ] the major threat of infectious disease.

– Amany Qaddour

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Thus, for some people, believing in apocalypse-like prophecies may help with this worry and anxiety by giving them something to focus on and a goal to strive toward, for religious prophecies this goal may involve positioning yourself to be one of the chosen ‘saved’ on the day the world ends, whereas for secular prophecies (such as Y2K) the goal may be focused on preparing to survive the potentially harsh conditions created by a catastrophic event.

– Dr Arnold

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

To say that we were excited once we realized what we’d found is an understatement, we never suspected that Greek fragments of the First Apocalypse of James survived from antiquity. But there they were, right in front of us.

– Geoffrey Smith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

[But] there’s an inspirational sort of strength and endurance and quality of tenacity that he possesses, i’m much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who’s willing to step into the firing line. But I’ve learned from this guy. He has qualities that I would hope to emulate if [stuff] ever hit the fan. But I’d like to think I’ve done it on screen, maybe I could be a zombie-killer in real life if the apocalypse hit. But then, I’d obviously die a horrible, quick death in reality.

– Andrew Lincoln

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This offers great promise for countering the zombie apocalypse in Chicago.

– Chick Macal

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations, declared to Variety. But Ben-Hur isn't the only epic fail. Proving that Americans aren't impressed with much of Hollywood's summer slate, there have been multiple flops, including the Ghostbusters remake, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Star Trek Beyond, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan, Warcraft, X Men: Apocalypse, and the Steven Spielberg directed fantasy, The BFG. Still, as The Wrap just reported, North American ticket sales are up 2.84 percent over 2015 receipts at this time. The films have cumulatively earned an astounding $4.14 billion domestic in figures calculated from 108 days after the first Friday in May until Aug. 22. This summer suffered from the problem of perception versus reality.

– Paul Dergarabedian of comScore

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I think there are so many characters in the X-Men universe that we could go and explore before we have to go and mash up with those guys, x-Men: Apocalypse.

– Jennifer Lawrence

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Maybe 40 years ago people might not have appreciated a film like 'Apocalypse Now,' which was kind of unusual to say the least, if you're looking as an artist for some type of assurance that what you are doing is OK or going in the right direction then I think you have to wait for the judgment of time before you know.

– Roman Coppola

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's not the apocalypse, it's not doom and gloom, and if it's not doom and gloom you can come out of the bunker and the first thing you do is take a sigh of relief and then you want to make money.

– Barry Schwartz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are many, and legitimate, contributing factors to the global economic slowdown narrative. These include China-related issues, such as the recent devaluation of its currency, the stock market's boom and bust in recent months, and slower GDP growth, i believe that this volatility is likely to remain with us, at least until the end of the year ... But for most long term investors, fears of a near-term financial apocalypse are overdone.

– Nigel Green

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?

– Ernest Renan

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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