Disaster Quotes - page 5

I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster. (Jan Schakowsky)
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love. View quote
Jeff Greenfield
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster. View quote
Jim Wallis
Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days. View quote
Jo Bonner
Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick. View quote
Johnny Ramistella
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan. View quote
Kevin O'Leary
An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster. View quote
Kurt Masur
If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss. View quote
Kathie Lee Gifford
My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance. View quote
Katie Leclerc
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk. View quote
Lindsay Fox
This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America. (Louis A. Johnson)
AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching. View quote
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. View quote
Meg Greenfield
I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster. View quote
Mike Rogers
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. View quote
Norman Ralph Augustine
Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody. View quote
Natalia Ginzburg
The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.' View quote
Robert Greenwald
I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that. View quote
Rory Cochrane
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again. View quote
Rudolf Bing
Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake? View quote
Russ Carnahan
If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster. (Susan George)
Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills. View quote
Thomas John Barnardo
If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do. View quote
Warren Rudman
I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening. View quote
Zhang Ziyi
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things of which we have thought too much. In his death he has reminded us of the big things of life, the living truth, and if we remember that, then it will be well with India. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru