Disaster Quotes - Page 17

• America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

  Alison Lurie

  Self, Land, America

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• Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

  Alison Lurie

  Nature, Book, Loss

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The Last Resort: A Novel”, p.275, Open Road Media

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• It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

  Lynda Obst

  Success, Moving, Important

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• The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.

  Doreen Valiente

  Spring, Loss, Winter

  Doreen Valiente (2018). “Witchcraft for Tomorrow”, p.165, The Crowood Press

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• I'd never want to have a gun. I don't think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.

  Eric Bolling

  Country, Hate, Gun

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Greatest Treasure, People, Twenties

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

  Janet Burroway

  Children, Land, Apples

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• I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Sleep, Self, Facts

  Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Boss, Effort, Around The World

  "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.

  Gloria Reuben

  Children, Years, Care

  "A Louisiana Mother’s Day Wish" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.

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• The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Broads, Foreign Policy, Strokes

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• America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.

  Dan J. Stein

  Home, America, President

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• Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster.

  Ben Yagoda

  Strong, Long, Spices

  "Yagoda’s Rules for Quotes, 2.0". benyagoda.com. August 25, 2015.

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• No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Technology, Opportunity, Choices

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Evil, Moral, Financial

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• Well, Jen and Josh are the two funniest people on set. They're absolutely insane. If you put them together, it's just a disaster, But, I mean, it's so much fun! They're both probably the funniest people on set.

  Willow Shields

  Fun, Mean, Two

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• To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Mean, Insecure, Two

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• It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.

  John Lennon

  Music, Rocks, Talking

  BBC Radio 1 "Scene and Heard" with David Wigg, October 25, 1971.

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• Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taken, Two, People

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• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Europe, Communist, Economic

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• Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

  Tom Stoppard

  Theatre, Obstacles, Series

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• The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Release, Phenomenon, Sleeplessness

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• We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.)

  John Holdren

  War, Ocean, Optimistic

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• The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Want, Assuming

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• I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster."

  Drew Barrymore

  Believe, Silly, Night

  "Drew Barrymore on her new gig, motherhood, and Adam Sandler". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2014.

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