Disaster Quotes

The press lives on disaster.

— Clement Attlee

The alternative to discipline is disaster

— Vance Havner

ObamaCare is a complete disaster.

— Donald Trump

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

— Rudyard Kipling

“Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

— Scott McNealy

Out of near disaster, came real progress.

— Judy LaMarsh

“Disaster unites families, not excess.”

— Madeleine Henry

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

— Joan Rivers

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Most people plan by disaster. They think of what can go wrong and then they master it.

— Richard Bandler

“Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there!”

— Annie Barrows

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

— Lee Marvin

Dark lipstick on me is both a risk and a disaster.

— Alexa Chung

In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

— Butler Lampson

“Things with her, he says, were a disaster in slow motion.”

— Eula Biss

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

— Margaret Atwood

There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters.

— Rod Dreher

Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation.

— Jean Parker

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and…

— Camille Paglia

I have been working on my backhand since I was the age of five. And it's a disaster, my backhand, so I'm…

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

— Robert Culp

After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables.

— Shi Zhengrong

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift…

— Louis A. Johnson

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love…

— Marianne Williamson

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines.…

— Katie Leclerc

“Death and disaster seemed to cling to certain men like wet leaves to a shoe and there was nothing they could do…

— Deborah Elaine Kennedy

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations…

— Jonah Goldberg

I don't want our country to be taken away from us, and that's what's happening. The policies that we've suffered under other…

— Donald Trump

I welcome a discussion on a long-term, pro-active approach to disaster relief for Americans. Until Congress arrives at a conclusion, however, we…

— Cedric Richmond

This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep…

— Emma Forrest

I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly…

— John M. Ford

A fish is free as long as it stays in the water. If it suddenly declares that it wants its freedom to…

— Gigi Graham

“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so…

— Carl Sagan

The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level…

— W. Cleon Skousen

I don't know if it's possible for anyone to really have that level of a voice anymore because our media is so…

— John Buffalo Mailer

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

— Shigeru Ban

BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor…

— Ambrose Bierce