Disasters Quotes
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
Maya Angelou -
Financial crises are not natural disasters. They are man-made disasters.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
Isaac D'Israeli -
Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.
Michael Stipe R.E.M. -
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
Irwin Redlener -
Disasters teach us humility.
Anselm of Canterbury -
I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.
Alexander McQueen
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Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come. Some things that don’t happen keep disasters from happening.
Rumi -
They (FEMA officials) just don't have their act together, ... They didn't know where their evacuees are; they didn't know how many each state had. Those are basic questions. You need competence at the top to manage these large-scale disasters.
Janet Napolitano -
If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.
Arthur Ashe -
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.
Aristotle -
In life, the worst disasters come from passion.
Euripides -
There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study.
Ovadia Yosef
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History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
Sarah Vowell -
You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters can. Places can change... but it takes blood, sweat and tears.
Bob Maguire -
A hung jury, however, suggests that any decline was not overwhelming; and, in common with most historians, I believe the empire was still very powerful at the end of the fourth century. Unfortunately, a series of disasters was soon to change things.
Bryan Ward-Perkins -
I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of possible to experience
Walter De Maria -
The world will continue to be hit by natural disasters and hateful mass killings, but communities bounce back stronger, so keep going.
Azran Osman Rani -
War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
Georges Clemenceau
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This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.
Ed Murray -
Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.
Akong Rinpoche -
Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.'s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable.
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan -
I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.
Avi Lewis