Disaster Quotes - Page 10

• With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fall, Australia, Water

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• You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Names, Dancing, World

  Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Replacement”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Impact, Volcanoes, Pigs

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Important, Achieve, Results

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.210, Princeton University Press

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• When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sea, Law, Wonderful

  "Galbraith on Crashes, Japan and Walking Sticks" by Ben Laurance and William Keegan, The Observer, June 21, 1998.

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• I still check the weather every day, usually multiple times a day, because I know at a moment`s notice, a dream crop can turn into a disaster.

  Frank Lucas

  Dream, Weather, Moments

  Source: www.today.com

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• I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Numbers, Drug

  "Exclusive: Beyoncé Discusses New H&M Campaign". Interview with Lisa Dougan, www.elle.com. April 15, 2013.

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• One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Believe, Hands, Two

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• There's a joke about the balloon boy who has a balloon mum and a balloon dad and he goes to a balloon school with balloon friends ad a balloon principal. And one day, the balloon boy decides to take a pin to his balloon school, which is, of course, a disaster. And he's called into the balloon principal's office, and the balloon principal tells him, 'You've let me down, you've let your school down, you've let your parents down, you've let your friends down. But most importantly you've let yourself down'.

  Gabrielle Williams

  Dad, School, Boys

  Gabrielle Williams (2010). “Beatle Meets Destiny”, p.216, Marshall Cavendish

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• A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Decision, Risk

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.31, Routledge

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• Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.196, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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.

  Solon

  Men, Desire, Riding

  "The Histories Bk. 1". Book by Herodotus, trans. Robin Waterfield, ch. 32, pp. 15-16.,

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• There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Government, Law, Cities

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.416, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.

  John Buchan

  Religious, Self, Political

  "A University's Bequest to Yout". John Buchan's speech in Toronto (October 10, 1936), as quoted in John Buchan "Canadian Occasions", 1940.

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• 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.

  Philip Roth

  Epic, Pages, Way

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Dec 22, 2016

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• As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

  Paul Provenza

  Writing, Comedian, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Care, Way, Foundation

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• A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings.... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Determination, Home, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.

  Prince Philip

  War, Long, Growth

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• The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.

  Lauren Bacall

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• 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

  Song, Dark, Two

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. September 10, 2005.

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• A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

  Aristophanes

  Country, Men, Able

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• Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple a that.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  War, Simple, Despair

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.51, Routledge

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• Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.

  Stewart Brand

  Giving Up, Believe, Fighting

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.223, Penguin

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• The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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