Disaster Quotes

• I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

  Quentin Crisp

  Relationship, Marriage, Successful

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• We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Education, Ignorance

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

  Colin Wilson

  Rain, Men, Average

  "Another Kind of Life; Victorian Giants review - birth of the outsider" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2018.

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• If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Positive, Thinking, Expectations

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• I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

  Catherine the Great

  Courage, Inspirational Life, Bravery

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• There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

  Richard Bach

  Blessed, Blessing, Opportunity

  "One: A Novel". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

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• 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.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Fate, Men, Today

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing

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• The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• 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.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Book, Heart, Tragedy

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• Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Blessing, Technology, Hatred

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• There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

  Robert Culp

  Scripts, Wonderful, Direct

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• We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

  Kenichi Fukui

  May, Fields, Praying

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• These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

  James Van Allen

  These Days

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• Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

  Pat Roberts

  Agriculture, President, Fans

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• 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.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Country, Cities, States

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• I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

  Chelsea Clinton

  War, People, Lost Everything

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• 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

  Grief, Heart, Loss

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

  George Eliot

  Tragedy, Needs, Gone

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.101

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• The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

  David Mamet

  Symbolic Meaning, Perception, Tragedy

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• It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

  Rebecca West

  Success, Vices, Virtue

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• Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

  Thomas John Barnardo

  Opposing, Divided

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• There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Needs, Plight, Natural

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• The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

  Joe Paterno

  Thinking, Challenges, Made

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• Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.

  Ian Davis

  Self, People, Empowering

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