Disaster Quotes

1040 Disaster quotes by 845 unique authors

The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people… — Evgeny Morozov
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of… — Chuck Palahniuk
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving,… — Chuck Palahniuk
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for… — Vladimir Nabokov
i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed. — Kathy Acker
A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And… — Aldous Huxley
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot… — Hugh Laurie
the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a… — Tom Stoppard
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but… — Ayn Rand
Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a… — Margaret Atwood
The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster. — Richard Bach
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is,… — Dalai Lama
Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and… — Iain Pears
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and… — Robert A. Heinlein
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our… — William Shakespeare
The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power… — David O. McKay
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of… — Chuck Palahniuk
They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon.… — Lee Child
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down.… — Elizabeth Gilbert
This is how....life happens. One small thing at a time. A series of inconsequential junctions, any or none of which can lead to salvation or… — Steven Galloway
What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the… — Max Lucado
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the… — Banksy

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