Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them -… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Everything has been a disaster since I decided my life as it was wasn't good enough." "It wasn't good enough," she said.… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a… — Bill Lawrence Copy Share Image
People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
My friends have named me the person they least want to do extreme adventures with, because I always seem to be very… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I don't think the U.K. should leave the E.U. I think it would be a disaster for our economy, and it would… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
Until half a century ago, the Maures slopes had been silvery with olive trees, but in 1956 disaster struck. February frosts dropped… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
“People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?" From the worst moments in my life. I call… — Sandy Nathan Copy Share Image
I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I left small businesses a little while ago and they were all complaining that Obamacare is putting them out of business. Not… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds,… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
The Covid-19 pandemic is what insurers call an act of God. It has hit us like an asteroid strike and unleashed an… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
After 'The Room' premiered in 2003 - which went exactly as it does in 'The Disaster Artist' - I didn't think it… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with… — Jacob Hacker Copy Share Image
When my husband was president, we went from a $300 billion deficit to a $200 billion surplus and we were actually on… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the… — Dave Obey Copy Share Image
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The change that I never fall into is the, 'I'm-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.' The change that I'm hoping I get to is where I… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
Very little makes me feel vulnerable these days. I hit my absolute apex of vulnerability when I returned to my home state… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Finally if I had a pot that needed decoration, I would hand it to Alix [MacKenzie] and I would say, "Can you… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Sleep! May be you will wake up tomorrow and find that things never changed, the apocalypse never happened, and everything's fine, normal,… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to the store. They have no education. They have no jobs. I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would… — Charlie Crist Copy Share Image
I don't usually feel threatened by the militias. Most members are just indulging their fantasies of being warriors without having to sign… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
“There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
![“Finally if I had a pot that needed decoration, I would hand it to Alix [MacKenzie] and I would say, "Can you do something with this?" And she'd look at it for a while and then proceed with a brush to embellish the form and enhance the form, and it was wonderful. She could bring the pot to life…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0d/warren-mackenzie-4654_brushes_finally-if-i-had-a-pot-that-needed-decor_2413257.jpg)
![“[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.” quote by John Kenneth Galbraith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/989/john-kenneth-galbraith-643_century_franklin-delano-roosevelt-was-the-centra_1653091.png)
