Disaster Quotes - page 17

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. (Benjamin E. Mays)
Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American. View quote
Cedric Richmond
Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency. View quote
Chris Chocola
Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine. View quote
Daisy Donovan
The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster. View quote
David A. Siegel
Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance. View quote
Daniel Kahikina Akaka
I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it. View quote
Eric Balfour
Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster. View quote
Eric Ries
The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification. View quote
Fred Hammond
Since they all broke up the greatest conference in football, which was the Southwest Conference, I've had little interest in them any more. I thought that was a disaster and a disgrace when they did that, but they did it anyway. So I've lost interest them and I don't care what they do anymore. View quote
Gib Lewis
How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects. (Gloria Reuben)
Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we've got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn't that a possible recipe for disaster for the future? View quote
Gordon Taylor
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms. View quote
Gary Hamel
I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception. View quote
Henry Bonilla
Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding. View quote
Irwin Redlener
Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that the results will be good. I suspect the results would be a disaster and the end of the American experiment. View quote
Jan C. Ting
With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production. View quote
Jeff Goodell
The change that I never fall into is the, 'I'm-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.' The change that I'm hoping I get to is where I become wiser, smarter - where I put myself in situations that don't have a huge potential for disaster. View quote
Jeremy Lin
If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy. View quote
Jim Cooper
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner. View quote
Joe Paterno
There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad. (John Hickenlooper)
Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster. View quote
Jaclyn Moriarty
Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid. View quote
Jacob Hacker
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States. View quote
John Olver
Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example. View quote
Jon Meacham