Disaster Quotes

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It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found. — Donald Woods Winnicott
For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For… — Isadora Duncan
It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are… — Alain de Botton
A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's… — Gordon Korman
Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man… — Tamora Pierce
You're a disaster for us, Clary! You're a mundane, you'll always be one, you'll never be a Shadowhunter! You don't know how to think like… — Cassandra Clare
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let… — D. H. Lawrence
The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters. — Christopher Paolini
Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond… — Naguib Mahfouz
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people… — Walker Percy
In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably… — Jonathan Stroud
I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know. — Henry Rollins
Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. — Ilona Andrews
London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always… — Anna Quindlen
There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster. — Barack Obama
He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or… — Francesca Lia Block
Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself… — Julie Orringer

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