Disaster Quotes - page 4

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared. (Joseph Rotblat)
For him, life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other. View quote
J.R. Ward
I won't lie to you-it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we'd come to New York. View quote
James Patterson
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster. View quote
James Surowiecki
Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future. View quote
James Surowiecki
Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables. View quote
Dean Karnazes
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner. View quote
Georgette Heyer
You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster. View quote
Candace Bushnell
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? View quote
Christopher Buckley
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart. View quote
Daisaku Ikeda
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. (David Crystal)
One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned. View quote
Tim Curry
We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness. View quote
Petra Nemcova
I would be a disaster as a prime minister. View quote
V. P. Singh
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. View quote
Ernst Fischer
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster. View quote
A. R. Ammons
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. View quote
Ada Louise Huxtable
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. View quote
Avery Brooks
If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved. View quote
Buffy Sainte-Marie
I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that. View quote
Duncan Sheik
Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care. (Dave Obey)
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. View quote
Ellen Tauscher
I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more. View quote
Emilio Estevez
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. View quote
Godfried Danneels
If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves. View quote
Gaylord Nelson