Disaster Quotes

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it. (Emil Cioran)
Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. View quote
Elizabeth Bishop
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. View quote
Susan Sontag
One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred. View quote
Pierre Corneille
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Build me straight, O worthy Master Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster. View quote
Richard Bach
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster. (David Icke)
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. View quote
Johnny Depp
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. View quote
Hesiod
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. View quote
Ansel Adams
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. View quote
Joseph Conrad
We live in the midst of alarms anxiety beclouds the future we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster. View quote
Mario Puzo
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. View quote
Martha Beck
This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. View quote
Leon Panetta
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover. (W. Averell Harriman)
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. View quote
Agnes Smedley
If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster. View quote
Vito Fossella
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist. View quote
Warren Rudman