“The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help. — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“Everyone fears catastrophes and disasters and crashes and deaths, and people who attack you in the dark. You made all that worse… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS,… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
Having worked in disasters, I have seen that, in those critical first few hours, those first few days - so much ends… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I always leave disaster for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
