So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I want to win and I feel that pressure, but my career will not be a disaster if I do not win… — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit. — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
My first two years, with Metro, were quite unproductive. Then I had a year at Columbia that was a complete disaster. — Amanda Blake Copy Share Image
The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once there was this Telugu film about a ghost. It sounded too hackneyed. 'Probably it will turn out fine,' I told myself… — Ashish Vidyarthi Copy Share Image
Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history. — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene… — Adela Rogers St. Johns Copy Share Image
How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill,… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The problem of racial difference in America - and in modern life more broadly - is always presented as an economic, political,… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Just as plagues were visited on Pharaoh so will pestilences and disasters be visited on the white man. Why, it has already… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply… — Carl R. Trueman Copy Share Image
“On the palm of my hand there's a disaster. I must have been born with it. I carry it wherever I go.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“If this is really it...if you're really done with me...will you let me hold you tonight? - Travis” — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
I never knew that we can step into someone life, mess up their life and slip away just like a hurricane passed… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Disaster usually happens for me when everything I have counted on has stopped working, including all my best skills, intentions, and good… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally! — David Brin Copy Share Image
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
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