Disasters Quote by Michael Leunig Download Open image “The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.” — Michael Leunig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disasters Eerie Infinitely Poignant War
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares. — John Cory Copy Share Image
“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way… — Robert E. Merriam Copy Share Image
The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity. — Raisa Gorbacheva Copy Share Image
“The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity” — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart. — Rupert Friend Copy Share
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love and fear:… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of… — Michael Leunig Copy Share
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute.… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“Being along with the Nature your soul is stronger than all disasters.” — Esat Durak Copy Share Image
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature.It's a wonder you even step… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share
In addition to surviving the Forrestal, McCain has survived three other plane disasters, including being shot down over enemy territory. — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
“It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS. — Niki de St. Phalle Copy Share Image
Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don’t have… — James Hubbard Copy Share Image
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
