Disaster Quotes

1040 Disaster quotes by 845 unique authors

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling:… — Polly Toynbee
Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter? — Regina Brett
It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At… — John F. Kennedy
You may be right that people say: You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good,… — Karl Rove
I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster,… — Zhang Ziyi
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are… — Bruce Sterling
Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and… — Nathaniel Branden
Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters. — Delia Smith
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to… — Terrence McNally
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose… — Michael Frayn
Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life — Joseph Campbell
The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus. — Bashar al-Assad
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened. — Walter Ulbricht
This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda.Â Together… — Pope Francis
The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present. — George Saunders
Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization… — Evo Morales
You can die from someone else's misery â€” emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but… — Robert Greene
Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every… — Dave Obey
The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with… — Susan Sontag
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and… — Ruben Hinojosa

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