Best 369 quotes in «disaster quotes» category

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there.

I said '17 - right now, this year, "'17 is going to be a disaster." I'm very good at this stuff.

In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense.

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

I think Aleppo is a disaster, humanitarian-wise.

I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

I still check the weather every day, usually multiple times a day, because I know at a moment`s notice, a dream crop can turn into a disaster.

It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

It's a recipe for disaster.

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.

It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

I've had some real hair disasters.

I want, we're going to repeal and replace Obamacare. Obamacare is a total and complete disaster. It's going to be gone.

I was sent to sleepover camp since I was 6, and you know, it's a recipe for disaster.

I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

Keep rockin', and keep knockin' Whether you Louis Vuitton it up or Reebokin' You see the hate, that they're servin' on a platter So what we gon' have, dessert or disaster?

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Many LBOs are man-made disasters. When the price paid is excessive, the equity portion of an LBO is really an out-of-the-money call option. Many fiduciaries placed large amounts of the capital under their stewardship into such options in 2006 and 2007.

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

Most people plan by disaster. They think of what can go wrong and then they master it.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

NAFTA, signed by her [Hillary Clinton's] husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world.

NAFTA is a horrible agreement, one of the worst trade deals ever. It's just one of the worst. Although TPP, which I terminated before it got signed - before it got finished, someday hopefully people will be thanking. That would have been one of the great disasters of all times, in terms of trade.