Disaster Quotes

1040 Disaster quotes by 845 unique authors

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its… — Sholem Asch
Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt… — Karen Russell
To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is… — Chris Hedges
So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies… — Noam Chomsky
We need the books that affect us like a disaster — Franz Kafka
What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things… — Robert Greene
Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often… — Pat Roberts
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets… — Bruce Sterling
Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the… — Dalai Lama
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors. — Robert Fulghum
Do not be afraid of mistakes. They will be with you always,every time you put a camera to your eye. [If you] shoot safe, and… — Joe McNally
The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do.… — Geneen Roth
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women,… — Pete Hamill
But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity.… — Robert Collier
You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters can. Places can… — Bob Maguire
A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self. — Neale Donald Walsch
A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their… — Dallas Willard
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster — Hesiod
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. — Elias Canetti

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