Disaster Quotes
1040 quotes by 845 authors
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Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only…
— Roald Dahl
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Where did you learn to ride anyway? Disasters-R-Us? (Tory)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it…
— Joel Shepherd
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Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life…
— Kim Edwards
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No, Simi. No food. (Astrid) ‘No, Simi. No food.’ You sound like akri. ‘Don’t eat that, Simi, you’ll cause an ecological disaster.’ What is an…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that…
— Amy Tan
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....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard…
— Jane Goodall
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The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it -…
— Gregory Maguire
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For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other
— J R Ward
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My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,…
— Virginia Woolf
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A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know…
— Erica Jong
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I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I…
— James Patterson
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Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie.
— Sophie Kinsella
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And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out…
— Anita Shreve
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-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about…
— Iain Banks
Who Wrote These Disaster Quotes
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