Disaster Quotes

• Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Pride
  • Disaster

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

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Disaster

• Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Men
  • Today
  • Disaster

• “How could so many well-meaning professionals have been so wrong and been complicit in creating such a disaster? This book attempts to answer that question.”

  

  E. Fuller Torrey
  • Answer
  • Disaster
  • Professionals

• I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Think
  • Disaster

• Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Break
  • Disaster

• There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Poverty
  • Social
  • Disaster

• I am disappointed with America. And there can be no great disappointment where there is not great love. I am disappointed with our failure to deal positively and forthrightly with the triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism. We are presently moving down a dead-end road that can lead to national disaster. America has strayed to the far country of racism and militarism.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • America
  • Racism
  • Great Love

• President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Way
  • President
  • Created

• AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Country
  • Challenge
  • Disaster

• All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Wind
  • Hollywood
  • Disaster

• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Destroy

• Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Fan
  • Agriculture
  • Implement

• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Up
  • Why
  • Clear

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

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Destroy
  • Master
  • Disaster

• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Most
  • Disaster
  • Significant

• There's always a little bit of heaven, even in a disaster area.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Heaven
  • Disaster
  • Area

• I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

  

  Edward Smith
  • Imagine
  • Vessel
  • Founder

• We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Scene

• Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Men
  • Wife
  • Pleasure

• The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Men
  • Disaster
  • Asceticism

• 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.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Greatest
  • Consequences
  • Iraq

• The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Way
  • Care
  • Disaster

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