Disaster Quotes

I'm more confident in my music now because people are saying it's good - I'm trying to believe it, but it's very difficult. I don't know if it's going to end in disaster.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

One person's fashion is another person's disaster.

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.

President Obama said he is going to use the Gulf disaster to push a new energy bill through Congress. How about using the Gulf disaster to fix the Gulf disaster?

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster.

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

The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.

The credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.

While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

Out of near disaster, came real progress.

Any disaster is a learning process.

I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father sees you, how strong and necessary he thinks you are.

Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.

i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

The European economy is collapsing! The trans-Atlantic region is a disaster area in terms of economy.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life.

For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?

Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.