Disaster Quotes · Page 42

There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to…

— Victor Niederhoffer

David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.

— Roger Ailes

The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated,…

— Elizabeth Goudge

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic…

— Jello Biafra

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining…

— Antony Beevor

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end…

— Anonymous

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history.

— Ray Nagin

Obamacare is a disaster. If you look at even Canada, the people come down. When they want an operation, they come to…

— Donald Trump

The weird part is actually, there were so many exceptionally talented people there [ on "MADtv"]. But it was a disaster. I…

— Simon Helberg

“The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy…

— Pat Frank

Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who…

— Henry Alonso Myers

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my…

— Agnes Smedley

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus,…

— Ernst Fischer

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift…

— Rebecca Solnit

Donald Trump talks us down. He makes disparaging comments about America. He calls our military a disaster. Well, it's not, but it…

— Hillary Clinton

Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man…

— Loren Eiseley

I don't want to revisit history or try to re-interpret it, you know, but starting from where we are now, given the…

— Jill Stein

Once there was this Telugu film about a ghost. It sounded too hackneyed. 'Probably it will turn out fine,' I told myself…

— Ashish Vidyarthi

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes…

— Elias Canetti

“On the palm of my hand there's a disaster. I must have been born with it. I carry it wherever I go.…

— Margaret Atwood

I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit.

— Lewis Hamilton

My first two years, with Metro, were quite unproductive. Then I had a year at Columbia that was a complete disaster.

— Amanda Blake

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet.…

— Nathalie Sarraute

I want to win and I feel that pressure, but my career will not be a disaster if I do not win…

— Novak Djokovic

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.

— William Shakespeare

If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that…

— Edward Burtynsky

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out…

— H. G. Wells

I never knew that we can step into someone life, mess up their life and slip away just like a hurricane passed…

— Melchor Lim

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

— Peace Pilgrim

“If this is really it...if you're really done with me...will you let me hold you tonight? - Travis”

— Jamie McGuire

Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

— Ilona Andrews

Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out.

— Jose Serrano

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies…

— Nelson Mandela

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

— Max Lucado

“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”

— Kamand Kojouri

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

— Lynda Obst

Actually, for everybody, having sex the first time is never a good time. It's always a disaster.

— Francois Ozon

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the…

— Rachel Zucker

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

— Jeremy Bolt