Disaster Quotes

1040 Disaster quotes by 845 unique authors

Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only… — Gerhard Richter
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring… — Bertrand Russell
If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only… — Stephen Hawking
The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it. — Homer
Pride and excess bring disaster for man. — Xunzi
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism,… — Zygmunt Bauman
If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster. — David Cronenberg
If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic… — Pat Buchanan
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure… — Malcolm Mclaren
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have… — Nathalie Sarraute
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the… — Eugene Kennedy
Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies. — Jose Manuel Barroso
Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water - don't… — Max Brooks
I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so… — Jonathan Brandis
I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget… — Katy B
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second… — Rudolf Bing
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. — Chelsea Clinton
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the… — Godfried Danneels
Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster,… — Vince Cable
The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a… — Jonah Goldberg

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