Disaster Quotes · Page 9

There's a joke about the balloon boy who has a balloon mum and a balloon dad and he goes to a balloon…

— Gabrielle Williams

We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster.…

— Noam Chomsky

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the…

— Rachel Zucker

I think most other comics are like, 'I'm going to do my fkin' act and that'll be that.' With me, it's like,…

— Marc Maron

Every chance at destabilizing [Bashar] Assad... the bombing campaign causes a flood of refugees into Jordan, there's already half a million in…

— Rand Paul

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.

— Fran Lebowitz

I hate it when Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi get to beat their drums and talk about what a great day it…

— Jeanine Pirro

We need to fix the military, help veterans, our inner cities are a disaster, you get shot walking to the store. We…

— Donald Trump

The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard…

— Chris Murray

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

— Tony Hayward

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...

— Charles Stuart Calverley

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with…

— Swami Vivekananda

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Butler Lampson

The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy…

— Al Gore

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as…

— Alison Lurie

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must…

— Maya Angelou

All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.

— Simon Jenkins

I thought Italian Vogue had always been considered the most experimental, avant-garde magazine. If I was going to use the same kind…

— Franca Sozzani

The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces…

— Isaac Asimov

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We…

— Robert Fulghum

We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us,…

— Patrick Ness

Kids are like farts. You dont mind your own, but other peoples are unbearable.

— Emalie Newhall

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