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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• Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.

  Bertrand Russell

  Way, Increase, Dread

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.54, Routledge

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• Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

  Jim Wallis

  Sometimes, Natural, Social

  "What the Waters Have Revealed" by Jim Wallis, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2005.

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• I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Thinking, Hair, Blonde

  Source: www.manforhimself.com

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• Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Mercy, Hours

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• I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will 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. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Believe, Humble, Positive Thinking

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• Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

  Robert Fulghum

  Long, Survivor, Kind

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• If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Triumph, Bliss, Treats

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• 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.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Children, School, Drunk

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• AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Country, Challenges, Hiv

  "Mbeki vows to step up AIDS fight". www.cnn.com. February 8, 2002.

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• 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.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Life, War, Thinking

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• I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  People, Imagine, Admire

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• Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.

  Elias Canetti

  Decision, Ifs, Open Eyes

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• Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

  Elias Canetti

  Eye, People, Decision

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• He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Smile, Taught

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• Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  Orlando Bloom

  Atheism, Proportion, Fiasco

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• Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

  Isaac Asimov

  Humorous, All Time Low, World

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• Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Chance, Life Happiness, Peace Within

  "Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck".

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• In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Past, People, Together

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• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  Warren Rudman

  People, Sound, May

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• When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

  Mark Twain

  Failure, Fall, Men

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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.

  Avery Brooks

  Smile, Children, Giving

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• Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Distance, Grief, Feelings

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.444, St. Martin's Press

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• There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Positive, Gratitude, Pain

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Jobs, Loss, Talking

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