Disaster Quotes

1040 Disaster quotes by 845 unique authors

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives… — Cameron Sinclair
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. — H. L. Mencken
I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster. — Muhammad Ali
We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults. — Luc de Clapiers
The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the… — Jim Rohn
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers… — John F. Kennedy
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For… — Walter Lippmann
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a… — Meg Greenfield
Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view. — James Fallows
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. — James Fallows
It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size… — Ingrid Newkirk
You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends… — William McFee
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another. — Euripides
If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich. — Euripides
People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors. — Geraldine Ferraro
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong… — Ronald Reagan
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster. — Bruce Catton
The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation… — Cyril Connolly
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last… — David Mamet

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