Disaster Quotes

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation.

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.

Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it.

All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

There's always a little bit of heaven, even in a disaster area.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.

Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.

No one ever understood disaster until it came.

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

It doesn't take a miracle or a natural disaster to live in the world that you're after, the change is gonna happen to you

Nature was taking back what had once been hers.

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

All is but illusion and disaster.

It seems after the disaster many good things and blessings happen,.

When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

I had died and woken up in High School Musical

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.