Disaster Quote by David Remnick Download Open image “Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.” — David Remnick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disaster Nations Surprise
To me, the idea that any kind of disaster helps create a nation seems a ridiculous one. There was no family in the house… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is… — Rebecca Solnit 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
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
We can hope that the responsibilities and realities will weigh on Donald Trump and he will not be the president we fear, but rather… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
“One cannot exclude the possibility of a fascist period in Russia,” Staravoitova said on the radio station Echo of Moscow. “We can see too… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners,… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later. — David Remnick 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 to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
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
