Best 369 quotes in «disaster quotes» category

Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme.

We have the most incompetently worked trade deals ever negotiated probably in the history of the world, and that starts with NAFTA. And now they want to go TPP, one of the great disasters.

Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

We must act now to save Americans from the imploding Obamacare disaster.

We may be sinking in the North Atlantic in the most famous ship disaster of all time, but God can still use us to reach out and save others through our witness.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

Whenever I've gone against my instincts, it's been a bit of a disaster. If there's a script I'm considering, I will get everyone to read it. I will get my mom to read it, I will get my friends to read it, I'll get the person doing my manicure to read it. I'm someone who really needs to talk things through. And then, obviously, I have a wonderful manager and agents, and I listen very carefully to what they have to say as well.

What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.

When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.

When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.

Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

You can never be too far away from a disaster, because there is no disaster-free zone in this entire universe!

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster.

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

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 care" is a disaster. It's got to be repealed. It's got to be repealed and replaced.

You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time

According to the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century BC, 'There lies out in the deep off Libya [Africa] an island of considerable size, and situated as it is in the ocean it is a distant from Libya a voyage of a number of days to the west. Its land is fruitful, much of it being mountainous and not a little being a level plain of surpassing beauty. Through it flow navigable rivers ...' Diodorus goes on to tell us how Phoenician mariners, blown off course in a storm, had discovered this Atlantic island with navigable rivers quite by chance. Soon its value was recognized and its fate became the subject of dispute between Tyre and Carthage, two of the great Phoenician cities in the Mediterranean: 'The Tyrians ... purposed to dispatch a colony to it, but the Carthaginians prevented their doing so, partly out of concern lest many inhabitants of Carthage should remove there because of the excellence of the island, and partly in order to have ready in it a place in which to seek refuge against an incalculable turn of fortune, in case some total disaster should overtake Carthage. For it was their thought that since they were masters of the sea, they would thus be able to move, households and all, to an island which was unknown to their conquerors.' Since there are no navigable rivers anywhere to the west of Africa before the seafarer reaches Cuba, Haiti and the American continent, does this report by Diodorus rank as one of the earliest European notices of the New World?

Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don't care to know before they surrender!

Always be prepared. Preparation with the anointing of the Holy Spirit secures success. Not being prepared and not having the anointing of the Holy Spirit, spells utter disaster

And he thought of the two people who had held his job before him: Sam and Astrid. Both beaten into despair by trying to hold this group of kids together in the face of one disaster after another. Both of them now happy to let Edilio handle it. “No wonder,” Edilio muttered. “Stay inside unless absolutely necessary,” Edilio shouted, and not for the first or last time wished he was still just Sam’s faithful sidekick.

A prepper is prepared to live through a disaster; a survivalist lives as a man, regardless of whether a disaster happens or not.

An assumption of flawlessness is the swiftest shortcut to disaster there is.

And then it struck him what lay buried far down under the earth on which his feet were so firmly planted: the ominous rumbling of the deepest darkness, secret rivers that transported desire, slimy creatures writhing, the lair of earthquakes ready to transform whole cities into mounds of rubble. These, too, were helping to create the rhythm of the earth. He stopped dancing and, catching his breath, stared at the ground beneath his feet as though peering into a bottomless hole.

Be thankful for the disasters that warn you clearly before they come!

Are we never to educate ourselves to foresee such dangers and to prevent them before they happen? All the evidence of history shows that laws unknown and unsuspected are being discovered day by day: as this knowledge accumulates for the use of man, is it not certain that the ability to see and destroy beforehand the threat of danger will be one of the privileges the whole world will utilise?

But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.