Disaster Quotes · Page 43

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

— Ted Danson

There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need…

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

I don't believe in open borders, I don't think that would work. I think economically they're a disaster. Therefore there's nothing wrong…

— Michael Capuano

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to…

— Pat Roberts

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

— Al Smith

Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?

— Og Mandino

I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to…

— James Woods

My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy…

— Lorna Luft

You need to write a book, what's going on with my serve. It's disaster. I don't bend my legs. Instead of jumping…

— Dinara Safina

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous…

— Barbara Tuchman

As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that…

— Tony Goldwyn

It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make…

— Joel Shepherd

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you…

— Douglas Coupland

News reports following a natural disaster are almost always dominated by stories of looting and violence, but in many cases such stories…

— Rutger Bregman

“Disaster had shown her her limitations, and he realized now what a fine loyal character she was. Her humility was touching. She…

— E.M. Forster

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly…

— Thomas Sowell

One of the hallmarks of the American spirit is the desire to help each other when disaster strikes.

— Kay Ivey

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

— Steve Irwin

Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most…

— K.P. Yohannan

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

— J.R. Ward

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

— Abraham Lincoln

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been…

— Richard Bach

He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.

— Nat Hentoff

Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.

— Mary Beard

My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and…

— Linda Hamilton

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Health care - we need health care for our people. We need a good - Obamacare is a disaster.

— Donald Trump

“So much for the movement of the world! It could have been perfection and it was a disaster. It should be experienced…

— Muriel Barbery

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very…

— Bashar al-Assad

“Disaster usually happens for me when everything I have counted on has stopped working, including all my best skills, intentions, and good…

— Anne Lamott

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

I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a…

— Fred D'Aguiar

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is…

— David Attenborough

“running an organization as close to maximum capacity as possible for as long as possible is a recipe for a scaling disaster.”

— Anonymous

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

— Benjamin Graham

“There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from…

— Winston S. Churchill

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

— Thomas Sowell

The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

— Richard Ebeling

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way…

— Nan Hayworth