Disaster Quotes
1040 quotes by 845 authors
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Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.
— Rachel Caine
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In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth…
— Charlotte Bronte
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THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding…
— William Butler Yeats
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A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape…
— Vera Nazarian
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What kind of tea do you want?" "There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?" "Let´s see... Blueberry, Raspberry, Ginseng, Sleepytime, Green Tea,…
— Bryan Lee O'Malley
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The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at…
— John C. Maxwell
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And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of course —those who…
— Tina Fey
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Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.
— Richelle Mead
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I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time…
— Katherine Hannigan
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I was like a lost moon―my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation―that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around…
— Stephenie Meyer
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness…
— Michel de Montaigne
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This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be…
— Moderata Fonte
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To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.
— Alexandra Adornetto
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The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed…
— David Levithan
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We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful…
— Thomas Merton
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And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by…
— Nicole Krauss
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I named my camel Katrina. She was a natural disaster. She slobbered everywhere and seemed to think the purple streak in my hair was some…
— Rick Riordan
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He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters…
— Jennifer Egan
Who Wrote These Disaster Quotes
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