Disaster Quotes

1040 Disaster quotes by 845 unique authors

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat… — Roger Angell
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant. — Theodor Adorno
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is… — Don DeLillo
Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured. — Anwar Sadat
My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was… — Katie Leclerc
Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers. — Martin O'Malley
We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common… — Thomas Berry
This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those… — David Plouffe
The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster. — David A. Siegel
At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail… — Bernie Sanders
We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing… — Frederick Lenz
We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour,… — Rebecca Solnit
This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is… — Frances Perkins
The alternative to discipline is disaster — Vance Havner
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. — Benjamin E. Mays
A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the… — John Ralston Saul
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster,… — John Malkovich
BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf… — Peter Welch
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they… — Prince Charles
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something… — Giles Andreae

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