Disaster Quotes

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Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength.… — L. Ron Hubbard
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. — Lisa Kleypas
Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just… — Mario Puzo
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. — Nick Harkaway
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding… — Loren Eiseley
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and… — Orson Scott Card
While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's… — Vladimir Nabokov
Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History… — Sarah Vowell
The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered… — Barbara Mertz
I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in… — Janet Evanovich
The critical question for our generationâ€”and for every generationâ€” is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you… — John Piper
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes… — Don DeLillo
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same. — Rudyard Kipling
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous… — Che Guevara
One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it… — J M Coetzee
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when… — J. R. Moehringer
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,… — Carl Sagan
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for… — Georgette Heyer
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? — Christopher Buckley
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside… — Richard Brautigan

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