Coast Quote by Vivienne Westwood

In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

— Barack Obama

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

“The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity”

— David Jeremiah

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

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

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Please, accept the most sincere words of sympathy over the natural disaster that affected the United States . I know that hurricane Katrina that…

— Vladimir Putin

We love disasters that have nothing to do with us

— Mark Doty

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

— Boris Johnson

There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time…

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

“These days, we tend to think of disasters as acts of God and government. Regular people only feature into the equation as victims, which…

— Amanda Ripley

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to…

— Erica Jong