Disaster Quotes
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Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
Eric Ries -
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
Ernst Fischer
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I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine the Great -
A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky -
Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart.
Erin McKeown -
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell -
Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.
Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty -
My parents never put a lot of pressure on us to be any kind of way.... I have my funny moments where I look at myself and think, Oh, this is a disaster. But you have to give yourself a reality check and go, All right, if I feel this way, I'm going to do something about it that's healthy. I can't look at somebody who is 6 feet tall and 120 pounds and say, I'm going to get that body. That's just never going to happen. You have to work with what you've got.
Scarlett Johansson
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
Josiah Strong -
I feel really proud that in the wake of such a disaster that people are donating. They are going to have such an impact on a lot of people.
Christopher Doyle -
Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.
David Holmgren -
People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.
William Eckhardt -
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
William Bridges -
We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.
Wayne LaPierre
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The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.
Emil Cioran -
There are some Questions, some battles, some Hiccups that are worth losing a world for. And perhaps even when all ends in disaster, you cannot do the wrong thing, if you do it out of love.
Cressida Cowell -
Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.
Evan Harris -
Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.
Geert Hofstede -
“Freedom has its risks. Suppression of freedom, I believe, is a sure prescription for disaster.”
Nadine Strossen
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What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.
Esther Duflo -
Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing.
Debra L. Lee -
Freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought; it is essential to democratic self-governance; and the alternative-- government censorship and control of ideas-- has always led to disaster.
Erwin Chemerinsky -
The state does not have the capability to provide financial assistance to disaster victims.
Craig Fugate