Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business partners, the 'locals' who bought lots… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous. — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you have a system that increases border security funding by about 300 percent, and it only increases funding for immigration courts… — Marc Veasey Copy Share Image
What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster. — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
When we have a disaster in Japan, I wonder, how can we prevent our lives and traditions and history from the disaster? — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
“There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
When I left the Treasury, there was a poll that showed - and I don't remember the numbers exactly right - something… — Henry Paulson 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
For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that… — Tony Kaye Copy Share Image
He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time.… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor… — James Grant Copy Share Image
Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
We need only take our heads out of the sand to see clearly that interventionism not only has failed to provide the… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think that in any environment, you date a co-worker, and it can be a recipe for disaster. — Janelle James Copy Share Image
