Best 369 quotes in «disaster quotes» category

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

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 mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life.

I'm a great believer in all forms of energy, but we're putting a lot of people out of work. Our energy policies are a disaster.

I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I think Aleppo is a disaster, humanitarian-wise.

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.

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've had some real hair disasters.

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

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

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

I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

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

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.

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

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?

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

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?

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.

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

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

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.

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.