It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers,… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Disaster movies do us the psychological service of forcing a quick march through the worst that could happen. At the end we… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a… — Maya Deren Copy Share Image
It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
“This is why you need everyone you know after a disaster, because there is not one right response. It's what paralyzes people… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Do you know what will be left after you open that box? Even though a lot of disasters came out, because we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The uncontrolled and rapacious exploitation of oil has led to unintended consequences, and if we continue on a similar trajectory with water,… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster… — Katy B Copy Share Image
Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers,… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Five years after the Chernobyl disaster, in the summer of 1991, the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence, I… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may… — John Money Copy Share Image
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I've never been able to keep track of an umbrella, but then my dad gave me this fancy umbrella. It was in… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
You may be right that people say: You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The Unthinkable is not a book about disaster recovery; it’s about what happens in the midst—before the police and firefighters arrive, before… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
The game shapes you. I played for 20 years at all levels, apart from the Premier League. I had a disaster at… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes… — Bob Blumer Copy Share Image
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I'm willing to engage or indulge real ideas, but if we don't do something [about global warming], we're all going to die!… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of… — Emanuel Ungaro Copy Share Image
Our missile technology, our equipment, is better than anybody by a factor of five. I mean look, we have, in terms of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
You don't have to look any farther than the state of California to know that having a 'Gordian knot' of conflicting measures… — Cary Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
![“You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2de/charlie-munger-458_arguing_you-could-argue-that-the-decline-of-publ_2624033.jpg)
![“We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards the proper policies that right now are a complete disaster based on his policies.” quote by Jeb Bush](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/032/jeb-bush-1082_barack_we-have-huge-national-security-issues-in_1292620.png)
![“I'm willing to engage or indulge real ideas, but if we don't do something [about global warming], we're all going to die! What's it going to take, a big f--ing disaster with all kinds of people dying? We need to change our priorities fast.” quote by James Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/681/james-cameron-2754_all-kinds_i-m-willing-to-engage-or-indulge-real-id_319821.png)
