Disaster Quotes
1040 Disaster quotes by 845 unique authors
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Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to…
— Fritjof Capra
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This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
— Janet Fitch
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.
— Vernor Vinge
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As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and…
— Gavin Newsom
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If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a…
— Gaylord Nelson
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Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
— Nick Cave
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I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they should…
— Gabe Newell
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The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers…
— Gabe Newell
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I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what…
— John M. Ford
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We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken…
— Thomas Berry
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The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.
— Daniel Silva
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If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint…
— Buffy Sainte-Marie
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I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be…
— Maria Sharapova
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I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a…
— Karen Russell
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment…
— A. R. Ammons
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The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters
— Geraldo Rivera
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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
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Getting over those unexpected hurdles may not be exactly enjoyable, but ultimately I believe that such challenges and the solutions we find give us more…
— Martha Stewart
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We love disasters that have nothing to do with us
— Mark Doty
Who Wrote These Disaster Quotes
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