Disasters Quotes · Page 4

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

The fact that disasters have the power to bring us all together probably explains why weddings are so popular.

— Anonymous

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.

— Henry IV

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

— Anonymous

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— David Frum

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

— James Van Allen

For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material.

— Justin Cartwright

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long…

— Jared Harris

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there…

— Petra Nemcova

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

— Byron Dorgan

I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential…

— Camille Paglia

Most travel disasters turn into something else: a story of survival, a story of bravery, of heroism, sometimes villainy. You just don't…

— Mitchell Zuckoff

“The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.”

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.”

— Margaret Atwood

During times of emergencies, civil crisis, or natural disasters it is important for persons to remain free to exercise their constitutional rights…

— Colleen Hanabusa

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and…

— Richard Grimes

It's actually more than 700 case studies that show that, especially in times of crisis, we show our best selves. And we…

— Rutger Bregman

“Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that…

— Louise Erdrich

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into…

— Vivienne Westwood

Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners,…

— Tom Rooney

Natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are the worst kind of crises for people like Mr. Trump and Mr. Osteen, who purvey their…

— Anthea Butler

My understanding is that we are generally a very philanthropic and compassionate people - that when there are disasters in the world,…

— Mark Rylance

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

— Hussein Nishah

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Anonymous

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Steve Scalise

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

— Sara Paretsky

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Mak_786

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

— Eduardo Galeano

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

— Zac Posen

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

— Anne Applebaum

Paying for disasters and being fiscally responsible are not mutually exclusive.

— Steve Scalise

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

— Matteo Salvini

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

— Anonymous

“What were natural disasters compared to the disastrously wonderful nature of love?”

— H.C. Roberts

“...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life.”

— Don DeLillo