Disaster Quotes - page 15

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. (Quentin Crisp)
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster. View quote
Larry Wall
When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster. View quote
Laozi
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. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Only a neutral, who is indifferent to the stake and perhaps to all stakes, can appreciate aesthetically the grandeur of a fine disaster. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel. View quote
Bill Bailey
I had a screenplay once where I was 90 pages in and I knew it was all over. I knew it was a disaster. And it was driving me crazy because the studio had gone down a path with me, so there was no getting out and I didn't know how to go past these 90 pages. And then it all worked out-and the change which made it from absolute despair that there was no way to save it to it all working out was minute. But, but key. INTERVIEWER: Which screenplay was that? JAMES L. BROOKS: Uh, it was Terms of Endearment. View quote
James L. Brooks
The United States is the most powerful technically advanced country in the world to-day. Its influence on the shaping of international relations is absolutely incalculable. But America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the problem of disarmament occupies first place today. This must be changed, if only in the essential interests of the Americans. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents and that the destinies of all countries are closely interwoven. The people of this country must realize that they have a great responsibility in the sphere of international politics. The part of passive spectator is unworthy of this country and is bound in the end to lead to disaster all round. View quote
Albert Einstein
Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times. View quote
Stewart Brand
All his tunk-a-tunks, his hoo-goo-boos - those mannered, manufactured, individual, uninteresting little sound-inventions - how typical they are of the lecture-style of the English philosopher, who makes grunts or odd noises, uses homely illustrations, and quotes day in and day out from Alice, in order to give what he says some appearance of that raw reality it so plainly and essentially lacks. These "tootings at the wedding of the soul” are fun for the tooter, but get as dreary for the reader as do all the foreign words - a few of these are brilliant, a few more pleasant, and the rest a disaster: "one cannot help deploring his too extensive acquaintance with the foreign languages”, as Henry James said, of Walt Whitman, to Edith Wharton. (Randall Jarrell)
Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from within. View quote
John Ralston Saul
As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and broken dreams. But now I know that's just Detroit. It's only the Democrat-controlled areas that are a disaster. View quote
Milo Yiannopoulos
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. View quote
Nick Harkaway
Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster. View quote
Noah Hawley
I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my life have never been easy to love. I'm not used to normal. I'm used to disaster. I don't know, as messed up as he is, he's also sort of exciting, sort of a challenge. I'm accustomed to working for love. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
From a gabled roof the rolling melon has two choices of descent, though both lead to disaster. View quote
Andre Norton
Most people plan by disaster. They think of what can go wrong and then they master it. View quote
Richard Bandler
I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line. View quote
Hilary Mantel
If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster. (Bear Grylls)
The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are. View quote
Brian May
My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next. View quote
Daniel Silva
I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in your car!" Babe, you're a magnet for disaster. View quote
Janet Evanovich