Disaster Quote by Josephine Herbst Download Open image “No one ever understood disaster until it came.” — Josephine Herbst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disaster Understood
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact. — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“When you haven’t been in the world long, it’s hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it. — Leslie Parrish Copy Share Image
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults. — Luc de Clapiers 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
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing. — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern. — Josephine Herbst Copy Share Image
The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a… — Josephine Herbst 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
