Disaster Quotes · Page 22

When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.

— George Saunders

This politics of double standards has brought the country to the brink of disaster.

— Shatrughan Sinha

“Success is inspirational; disaster is educational.”

— Chunka Mui

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

— Joe Wilson

“The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.”

— Oscar Wilde

“One has to be in control, otherwise the whole dynamic becomes a total disaster.”

— Helen Fielding

In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

— Joan Didion

[Hillary Clinton] talks about solar panels. We invested in a solar company, our country. That was a disaster. They lost plenty of…

— Donald Trump

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

— Susie Orbach

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

— David Miliband

In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra,…

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Dominant narrative is so overwhelming in politics. The smallest gaffe when the momentum is against you is a disaster. But when it…

— Ed Miliband

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

— Stirling Moss

If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.

— Clayton Christensen

Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

— Michael Stipe

BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean…

— Peter Welch

Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed…

— William Howard Russell

I was like a lost moon―my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation―that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight…

— Stephenie Meyer

The recent upsurge of public concern over environmental questions reflects a belated recognition that man has been too cavalier in his relations…

— Richard M. Nixon

He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once…

— John Buchan

“The biggest disaster for a country is that the government, nation, and opposition trio are all rotten, because if only one of…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It's radical Islamic terrorism. And yet, when you see the last eight years, something's gone wrong to call it violent extremism or…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for…

— Leon Panetta

“... stress hormones are meant to give us the strength and endurance to respond to extraordinary conditions. People who actively do something…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they…

— Sandra Scarr

I was a businessman. I was a real estate man and a businessman. That was the first time I think that question…

— Donald Trump

If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the…

— Ruth Stout

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God,…

— Pat Robertson

We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life…

— Thomas Berry

“I had tried to do right, but once again my best efforts had led to disaster.”

— Julie Berry

“And so does pity lead straight to disaster.”

— Naomi Novik

Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

— Winston Churchill

Unfettered free trade has led to a disaster.

— Marine Le Pen

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

— Homer

“Knowledge without destination is a disaster.”

— Chiemezie Anyaeji

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

— D. A. Carson