Disaster Quotes

1040 Disaster quotes by 845 unique authors

I still couldn’t stop the sick feeling rising in my stomach. “This could be a disaster.” “How? If anyone even finds it—and it’s not just… — Richelle Mead
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one… — Donna Tartt
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith,… — Swami Vivekananda
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster. — Winston Churchill
A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money. — Andrew Mellon
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the… — Otto von Bismarck
I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race. — Alfred North Whitehead
There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice… — Bertrand Russell
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people,… — Gore Vidal
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike… — Alfred North Whitehead
Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions. — Coventry Patmore
Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of… — Coventry Patmore
Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of… — Douglas MacArthur
The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by… — Daniel Goleman
Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha. — Robert Breault
The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we… — Al Gore
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our… — Bernie Siegel
The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the… — Joseph Rotblat
I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully… — Eddie Rickenbacker
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master… — Elizabeth Bishop
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments.… — Fred Wilson
This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster. — Bob Menendez

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