Disaster Quote by David Frum Download Open image “I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.” — David Frum ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disaster Spectacular Thinking
Is it sad that Storm Corrosion needs to be explained to people before they can accept it? I don't think it's sad; I think… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest. — Tony Hayward Copy Share Image
Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“You can be brave and confident as you like, you can convince yourself that you’re invulnerable, that you know what you’re dealing with. You… — Mo Hayder Copy Share Image
I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it. — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold. — William McFee Copy Share Image
There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me. — David Frum Copy Share Image
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed… — David Frum Copy Share Image
One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us… — David Frum Copy Share Image
One of the things that really has gone wrong in modern politics, one of the things that made Trump possible was that many people… — David Frum Copy Share Image
People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long… — David Frum Copy Share Image
A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Trump is not just unlike a Republican, he's unlike a presidential candidate. The whole elaborate presidential process is designed to screen out people like… — David Frum Copy Share Image
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined. — David Frum Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, as a businessman, he's not much of a builder and he's not much of dealmaker and he certainly isn't very good at… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The system we have is one that protects my rights under a president I don`t approve. That tomorrow we`ll do the same for you.… — David Frum Copy Share Image
[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Crown Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne of Bavaria who commanded the army group facing the British at the Somme, was the senior… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
One of the undervalued contributors to Trump's stunning 2016 victory was the masterful performance Pence had in his debate against Hillary Clinton running mate… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
You know, we can't beat ISIS. We can't do anything. We can't take care of our vets. We can't have good health care. "Obama… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“She was—of course—perfectly normal— quiet and polite and reasonably intelligent and...normal and self destructive and lonely and terrified of every thing And she loved… — Tah the Trickster Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's my goal to be the top scorer in the Bundesliga, but it wouldn't be a disaster if I didn't achieve that. — Mario Gomez Copy Share Image
Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image