Disaster Quotes

1040 Disaster quotes by 845 unique authors

The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end… — Andrew Solomon
Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to every individual who was affected by these powerful storms, ... Despite facing serious obstacles, the wireless… — Steve Largent
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times… — Marlene Dietrich
We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are… — Amanda Ripley
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good. — Meg Whitman
Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United… — William Howard Russell
Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear. — John Pope
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,… — Ayn Rand
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of… — Thomas Sowell
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area… — Thomas Sowell
In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is… — Thomas Sowell
The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experienceâ€”it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes. — Maurice Blanchot
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact. — Maurice Blanchot
People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional… — Lisa See
If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get. — Chuck Palahniuk
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political… — Arthur Koestler
Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality — Jeff Buckley
We need only take our heads out of the sand to see clearly that interventionism not only has failed to provide the promised something-for-nothing, but… — Leonard Read
The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster. — Richard Ebeling
Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster. — Hal Borland

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