Disaster Quotes
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
Isaac Asimov
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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
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
Tom Stoppard
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
Haley Bennett
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I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.
Samuel J. Palmisano
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Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.
Tony Goldwyn
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Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.
Bill Gates
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Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.
Rachel Caine
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Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.
Bruce Sterling
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The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.
Maurice Blanchot
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To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Pierre Corneille
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people were so kind and helpful and solid. Everyone pretended that our lives until that moment had been every bit as real as the moment itself and that the future must be real too, when the truth was that our reality had been purchased only by Lyell's death. In another hour or so we had all faded out again and gone our dim ways.
Walker Percy
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You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
Homer
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People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.
Lisa See
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If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.
Salman Khan
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There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
Thomas A. Edison
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the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.
Tom Stoppard
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
Oscar Wilde
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The scope of the disaster is much larger than first understood. We have heard the appeal for assistance and we are ready to do our part. We urge other donors to do the same.
Pierre Pettigrew
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Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.
Alan Cranston
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Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.
Dr. John