Best 369 quotes in «disaster quotes» category

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past.

Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

Disasters teach us humility.

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

Don't wait for a disaster to get to know your neighbors.

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.

Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.

Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.

Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.

He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.

Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

Hillary Clinton has been a disaster as a senator. A disaster.

[Hillary Clinton's] regulations are a disaster, and you're going to increase regulations all over the place.

Hillary Clinton is a disaster, folks. She has bad judgment. That was said by Bernie Sanders. He's given me a lot of my best lines.

Hillary Clinton's plan is going to raise taxes and even double your taxes. Her tax plan is a disaster.

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

Hillary Clinton's bad instincts and her bad judgment, something pointed out by Bernie Sanders, are what caused so many of the disasters unfolding today.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.