Disaster Quotes · Page 40

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I…

— Greg Giraldo

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that…

— Seneca the Younger

I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

— Robert M. Pirsig

We are not only facing economic disaster and the question of peace and war. Ukrainians are traumatized by this Moscow-led aggression that…

— Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Jeb [Bush] doesn't really believe I'm unhinged. He said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign. It's been a…

— Donald Trump

I still have the newspapers of my first match at Barcelona. It was a disaster. We lost 2-0 and everybody was questioning…

— Ronald Koeman

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

— Arthur Ashe

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians…

— Rusty Schweickart

Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster…

— Katy B

In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design…

— Martin Rees

The uncontrolled and rapacious exploitation of oil has led to unintended consequences, and if we continue on a similar trajectory with water,…

— Rohini Nilekani

The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction…

— Lewis Sperry Chafer

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people…

— Josette Sheeran

For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their…

— Riane Eisler

It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus,…

— R. H. Tawney

What kind of tea do you want?" "There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?" "Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng,…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

God never promises exemption. He does promise companionship, which is better. He does not promise do deliver you or me or any…

— Daniel A. Poling

Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned…

— Vladimir Nabokov

On trade, our country is a disaster. We have political hacks. People that give money to politicians. That's how they get their…

— Donald Trump

“ Going There Of course it was a disaster. The unbearable, dearest secret has always been a disaster. The danger when we…

— Jack Gilbert

What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on…

— Clay Shirky

In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight.…

— Thomas Boswell

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

— Gore Vidal

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

— Jennifer Aniston

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to…

— Noam Chomsky

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if…

— Garry Kasparov

If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by…

— James Hansen

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

— Christopher Buckley

The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.

— Donald Trump

In times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times…

— William C. Richardson

We knew that John Fetterman was a disaster when it comes to his policies. This guy is a Bernie Sanders clone.

— Clay Travis

After the mediocre 'Final Fantasy XIII' and the sheer disaster that was 'Final Fantasy XIV,' many fans have lost faith in the…

— Jason Schreier

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

— Henry Rollins

I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for…

— Rafael Nadal

Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.

— Richelle Mead

“It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming…

— Aleksandar Hemon

When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help.

— Byron Dorgan

“When President Obama showed up to launch the Desoto Solar Farm, we were in the middle of dealing with the engineering disaster…

— Steven Magee