Disasters Quotes · Page 3

I will heap disasters upon them, spend my arrows against them:

— Anonymous

Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.

— Matteo Salvini

Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.

— Anne Applebaum

Human and natural disasters just before the animal was a threat to humanity today are at risk from human

— Mak_786

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

— Criss Jami

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

— Sara Paretsky

We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.

— Steve Scalise

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

— William Shakespeare

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining…

— Antony Beevor

Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

— Irwin Redlener

“These things happen to poor people who live in exposed areas. Society is set up in such a way that it’s the…

— Don DeLillo

“Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don't care…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who…

— James Hubbard

One thing that President Donald Trump did is, when he formed his team, he brought in people who had some experience in…

— Tamara Keith

“Courtesy of our millions, Mobutu became one of Africa’s worst disasters, ruling for decades like a late-stage Roman emperor.”

— Jeffrey Gettleman

For cancer patients like me, and for others who suffer from chronic or life-threatening illnesses, natural disasters don't put health on the…

— Suleika Jaouad

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when…

— Paul Di Filippo

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course,…

— Rebecca Solnit

Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they can't afford coverage or their insurance doesn't…

— Jeff Merkley

“."Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters,wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados,…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

Drones can be a huge advantage to agencies fighting natural disasters. They can launch immediately, gather vital data about an emergency situation,…

— Grant Imahara

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing…

— David Plouffe

Some of the best kitchen discoveries come about through total kitchen disasters.

— Zac Posen

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

— Eduardo Galeano

“It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.”

— Anonymous

“Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!”

— Brandon Sanderson

Can I take your picture?? I love to collect pictures of natural disasters

— Hussein Nishah

There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

— Anonymous

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

— James Van Allen

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

— David Frum

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

— Vernor Vinge

When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.

— Mo Ibrahim

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

— Anonymous

And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

— George W. Bush

Spring is a time of growth, renewal, and intensive preparation for deadly natural disasters.

— Anonymous

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

— Evelyn Waugh