Disaster famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
-- Andrew Mellon -
Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.
-- Anne McLellan -
The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.
-- Antal Szerb -
I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.
-- Aravind Adiga -
The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
-- Benjamin E. Mays -
When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.
-- Bertrand Russell -
What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
-- Bill Walton -
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
-- Boris Johnson -
In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.
-- Butler Lampson -
The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...
-- Charles Stuart Calverley -
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
-- Christopher Buckley -
Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.
-- Chuck Hagel -
If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
You have to jump into disaster with both feet.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
-- Claude Bissell -
In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster
-- Claude C. Hopkins -
A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
-- D. A. Carson -
I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.
-- Dan Brown -
Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
-- Daniel Kahikina Akaka -
Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster,
-- Daniel Kish -
The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.
-- Daniel Silva -
The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.
-- David A. Siegel -
You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!
-- David Brin -
If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.
-- David Cronenberg -
I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.
-- David Graeber -
Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.
-- David Hemmings -
Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.
-- David Icke -
It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.
-- Donald Woods Winnicott -
I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that
-- Duncan Sheik -
Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.
-- Eddie Cahill -
I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.
-- Edie Sedgwick -
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
-- Edmund Hillary -
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.
-- Elias Canetti -
Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.
-- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis -
Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
-- Eric Ries -
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
-- Eugene Kennedy -
We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.
-- Evelyn Waugh -
Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.
-- Francis Collins -
We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster
-- Fred Thompson -
You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time
-- Freddie Mercury -
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
-- George Meredith -
The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.
-- George Saunders -
War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
-- Georges Clemenceau -
The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters
-- Geraldo Rivera -
Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.
-- Gordon Bell -
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster
-- Hesiod -
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.
-- Iain Pears -
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due
-- Ian Fleming -
I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.
-- Irvine Welsh -
Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.
-- James Packer -
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
-- James Surowiecki -
These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.
-- James Van Allen -
There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.
-- Janet Evanovich -
A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.
-- Jared Diamond -
Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?
-- Jean-Dominique Bauby -
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
-- Joe Paterno -
He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.
-- John Buchan -
Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.
-- John T. Houghton -
No one ever understood disaster until it came.
-- Josephine Herbst -
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
-- Josiah Strong -
Disaster comes only because of ignorance.
-- Judah the Prince -
When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.
-- Julie Nixon Eisenhower -
Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past.
-- Junichiro Koizumi -
If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.
-- Kathy Acker -
Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.
-- Ken Bates -
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.
-- Kim Edwards -
My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.
-- Liv Tyler -
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.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.
-- Marilyn French -
We love disasters that have nothing to do with us
-- Mark Doty -
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
-- Martha Beck -
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.
-- Maurice Blanchot -
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck -
A hotter, moister atmosphere is an atmosphere primed to trigger disasters.
-- Michael Oppenheimer -
To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.
-- Midori Snyder -
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
-- Nathalie Sarraute -
After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.
-- Nicholas Hoult -
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
-- Nick Cave -
Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.
-- Niklaus Wirth -
Jonathan is one of the most corrupt Nigerians I ever investigated while at EFCC & his level of corruption even as deputy governor is just disturbing. PDP is just a disaster and a total failure. Change is the only panacea.
-- Nuhu Ribadu -
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
-- Orlando Bloom
