Disaster Quotes - page 18

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads. (Jon Porter)
I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school. View quote
Jonathan Brandis
Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me. View quote
Jools Holland
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster. View quote
Josiah Strong
The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well. View quote
Junichiro Koizumi
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers. View quote
James Buchan
We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. View quote
Kenichi Fukui
Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial. View quote
Karen Thompson Walker
Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster. View quote
Kathryn Minshew
I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up. View quote
Katy B
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light. (Linda Hamilton)
I shot a pilot for ABC, which I'm a bit confused about what the actual title is - I heard it was called 'Chosen.' It's directed by Roland Emmerich - the master of disaster himself - and it's his idea and concept for the show that's a supernatural thriller about good and evil set in contemporary modern day New York. View quote
Linus Roache
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. View quote
Lorna Luft
Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy. View quote
Mariella Frostrup
I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth. View quote
Maira Kalman
I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt. View quote
Marc Faber
If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history. View quote
Adam Davidson
Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point. View quote
Billy Evans
First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images. View quote
Bruce Jackson
The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster. View quote
Chris Morris
During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis. (Gary Wolf)
In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster. View quote
John O'Neill
Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers. View quote
Martin O'Malley
I think for most actors, because we sort of have to tell ourselves this, we always say, 'Oh, it doesn't mean anything to win an Oscar!' It certainly isn't a goal that you want to set yourself up for, because then you're just setting yourself up for disaster. Because how many people actually win an Oscar? View quote
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson