Disaster Quotes
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
Irwin Redlener
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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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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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
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
Tom Stoppard
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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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Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.
Rachel Caine
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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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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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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 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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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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The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
Homer
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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 play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
Oscar Wilde
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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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While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.
Vladimir Nabokov
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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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I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
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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