Disasters Quotes · Page 3

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

— Evelyn Waugh

Spring is a time of growth, renewal, and intensive preparation for deadly natural disasters.

— Anonymous

And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

— George W. Bush

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

— Anonymous

When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.

— Mo Ibrahim

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

— Vernor Vinge

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study.

— Ovadia Yosef

“The challenge of creation reduces us to the inevitable. Our lives are full of tiny disasters.”

— Floriano Martins

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.”

— Ross McDonald

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into…

— Anonymous

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do…

— John Rhys-Davies

I've been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5.…

— Dwayne Johnson

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

— James Tobin

“I should have known by then that it's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass; it's the ones…

— Karen Thompson Walker

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's…

— Gregg Easterbrook

“Everyone fears catastrophes and disasters and crashes and deaths, and people who attack you in the dark. You made all that worse…

— Sarah Ferguson

Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by…

— Seth Shostak

One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters…

— Jean Anouilh

So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it…

— Lee Goldberg

It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia…

— Vikas Swarup

“."Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters,wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors…

— Rebecca Solnit

“When disasters come at the same time, they compete with each other.”

— Naguib Mahfouz

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

— Michael Leunig

Even if predictable, unfortunately certain natural disasters are and remain unavoidable and invincible.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

— Jan Egeland

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

— Alan Moore

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

— Jeff Goodell

Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.

— Anne Applebaum

Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.

— Matteo Salvini

I will heap disasters upon them, spend my arrows against them:

— Anonymous

Paying for disasters and being fiscally responsible are not mutually exclusive.

— Steve Scalise

“...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life.”

— Don DeLillo

i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

— Kathy Acker

“What were natural disasters compared to the disastrously wonderful nature of love?”

— H.C. Roberts

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

— David Frum

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

— James Van Allen

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

— Anonymous