Disaster Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image “I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disaster Generosity Resistance Revolution
Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do. — Jackson Browne 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
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I could see jealousy coming up, I could see anger, I could see frustration. I could see people's agendas. I could see my kids… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and… — Frederick Buechner 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
So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit 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
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