Disaster Quotes - page 2

Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster. (Suetonius)
It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce. View quote
John Lennon
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate. View quote
Solon
"The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little." [taken from Adbusters magazine]. View quote
Banksy
If a certain country conducts uranium-related activities in a certain plant, the bombing of that plant is forbidden. If such a disaster occurs, America would not be able to show its face for all eternity. View quote
Gholam-Reza Aghazadeh
War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon. View quote
Susan Sontag
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God.. .The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster. View quote
Gerhard Richter
Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race. View quote
Gore Vidal
The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. (An even more evil man, armed only with a longbow, could not have wreaked such havoc at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.) View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And, I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone -- and you will not be. (Gloria Estefan)
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. View quote
Philip Roth
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
...NAFTA, signed by her husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world. View quote
Donald Trump
On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow. View quote
Amy Tan
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. View quote
Rebecca West
You have to jump into disaster with both feet. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed. (Benjamin Graham)
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster. View quote
William Randolph Hearst
We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster. View quote
Fred Thompson
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster. View quote
Michael Chabon