Disaster Quotes

1040 quotes by 845 authors

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to… — Ban Ki-moon
After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I… — Marshall Herskovitz
In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in… — Stephen Rodrick
The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of… — Timothy Noah
Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at… — Robert Dallek
Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go. — Lucy Punch
In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world… — W. Edwards Deming
New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster. — John Updike
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane… — Annie Jacobsen
My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain. — Elizabeth Holmes
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence. — Sheri L. Dew
Climate is always evolving, and natural disaster have always existed. — Marco Rubio
Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster. — Philip Hammond
I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster. — Cate Blanchett
No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if… — Karen DeCrow
I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you… — Aaron Patzer
After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables. — Shi Zhengrong
Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit. — Stella Young
It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as… — Paul Di Filippo
Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster. — Anne Wilson Schaef

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