Disaster Quotes
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Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
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Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
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You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.
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The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader George W. Bush is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.
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Even if you have insurance, you should apply by January 5th if your home or business suffered damage from Hurricane Wilma. You may find that you still have needs after your insurance settlement and you may qualify for financial assistance in the form of a low-interest disaster loan or grant.
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Visitors are coming to see a city that looks like a disaster movie set, but it could become fascinating if young people can get a chance to turn this shit into something new and exciting.
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I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
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If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.
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The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a Higher Power in human affairs. Time after time in his history, moreover, he has been saved from disaster in a manner, which cannot be described excepting as 'providential.' The author has deliberately attempted to write this book in a secular spirit; he does not think that his readers can fail to see in it, on every page, a higher immanence
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I'd never want to have a gun. I don't think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.
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Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.
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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.
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
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This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.
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But I can say that today Saturday we are beginning to feel to some extent, after many days of national disaster, the first signs help is getting through. I'm sure that in the next two days, the people will start to feel some hope.
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I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
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Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.
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When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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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.
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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.
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The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient's eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon's diagnosis.
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Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first to perish in a disaster.
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People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.
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The aficionado prefers a crazy bomb to a mediocrity, because the musical as a form has such potential as entertainment that the merely adequate can fatigue the spirit while the disaster can amuse with its drastic misjudgments and desperation gambles.
