Calm Quote by Rutger Bregman

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

— Anonymous

Some people dote on contemplating disasters.

— William Gibson

People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

We are the authors of our own disasters

— Latin Proverb

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

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

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

— Boris Johnson

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part…

— Gary Hamel

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

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of…

— Joseph Henry

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

— Jim Wallis

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous…

— Barbara Tuchman