Disaster Quotes - page 16

There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls. (Janet Evanovich)
This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster. View quote
Janet Fitch
The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present. View quote
George Saunders
It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found. View quote
Donald Woods Winnicott
What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster. View quote
Esther Duflo
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have. View quote
Kim Edwards
We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster. View quote
Claire Tomalin
Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
Project managers who believe that closing down a project will wreck their careers are tempted to carry on in the hope they will have a slight chance of saving their reputations. Both courses carry the risk of disaster for those responsible for a project, but one-abandonment-is often far better for the company. (David Davis)
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. View quote
John Kasich
Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie. View quote
Diablo Cody
If you talk to quite a lot of people around the world, whether it's in an Internally Displaced Person camp or in an emergency disaster they often say the UK is a UN Security Council member, a leading member of the European Union, a leading member of NATO, you can make a massive difference and they want us to act. View quote
Jo Cox
Mathripala Sirisena: The main thing in the 2nd year is the country's economy, because poverty is still prevalent. 22% of the population of this country is malnourished, and 15-17% of the population suffers from diabetes. 7-8% of the population is disabled, disabled by war, natural disaster or other causes. Therefore we must take all these into account. Priority has been given to eradicate poverty, to strengthen people's financial position, to strengthen the national economy. View quote
Maithripala Sirisena
The biggest terrorist organization in the world today is the U. S. Empire. ... The U. S. central command has its own death porn channel, video-logging their beheadings by drone. A drop in the bucket of the crimes and chaos the Empire has showered on this region of the world. But amidst its success in completely shredding several countries, it has also revealed a weakness – that its greed and arrogance can lead it to disaster. Any crisis for the Empire means new opportunities for the people: to expose its lies, its crimes, and to mobilize against it. View quote
Abby Martin
People respond to these disasters in terms of their own experience. Unless the disaster has struck them personally, their circumstances, their environment, it is dismissed as a superficial thing. View quote
Kamo no Chōmei
An irresistible cycle seemed to operate, repeating patterns of the ancient world where civil strife and war brought disaster... I surmised that patterned and predictable changes were in turn rooted in the very nature of civilization-the ineluctable breaker of custom and eroder of moral codes, and itself a product and expression of rapid technological and social change. View quote
William H. McNeill
If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster. View quote
Thomas Watson, Jr.
The King, hearing of this disaster, instantly marched towards Idur. On reaching Mahrasa he caused the whole of the Idur district to be laid waste. Bheem Ray took refuge in the Beesulnuggur mountains; but the garrison of Idur, consisting of only ten Rajpoots, defended it against the whole of the King's army with obstinacy; they were, however, eventually put to death on the capture of the place; and the temples, palaces, and garden houses, were levelled with the dust... View quote
Firishta
The British can sign and find a way to repudiate their signatures. They've done it over and over again. You need to go back to the Treaty Of Limerick. You have Malta and Egypt, for instance. They can always find high moral reasons for such repudiation. They are opportunists. Griffith, however, having given his word, would stick to it whatever the consequences, even though it meant the disaster of a civil war. They knew that. (Robert Erskine Childers)
How well I know that loyalty brings disaster. View quote
Qu Yuan
I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. View quote
Toby Young
This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster. View quote
Bob Menendez
Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster. View quote
Bob Ney