Best 369 quotes in «disaster quotes» category

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

The Veteran's Administration is a disaster, the V.A., it's a disaster.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

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

To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

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

Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted 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 you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

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

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

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!