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Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy…

— Naomi Klein

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of…

— Svetlana Alexievich

One of the undervalued contributors to Trump's stunning 2016 victory was the masterful performance Pence had in his debate against Hillary Clinton running mate…

— Mollie Hemingway

You know, we can't beat ISIS. We can't do anything. We can't take care of our vets. We can't have good health care. "Obama…

— Donald Trump

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy…

— Sylvia Pankhurst

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“She was—of course—perfectly normal— quiet and polite and reasonably intelligent and...normal and self destructive and lonely and terrified of every thing And she loved…

— Tah the Trickster

Obviously, it's my goal to be the top scorer in the Bundesliga, but it wouldn't be a disaster if I didn't achieve that.

— Mario Gomez

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

— Vladimir Putin

Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.

— Marilyn French

We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster

— Fred Thompson

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

— Ambrose Bierce

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their…

— Shigeru Ban

The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster.

— Martha GellmanMartha Gellman