Disaster Quotes

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

Each disaster became a steppingstone for growth.

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves

For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.

I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster.

My first date has been...mythologized as 'Bieber's Dating Disaster.' I took her to a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got spaghetti.

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.