Disaster Quotes - Page 19

• Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

  Michael Stipe

  Our Generation, Environmental, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

  Gore Vidal

  Minors, Reserves, Majors

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Always try to turn a marketing disaster into a marketing opportunity.

  Lester Wunderman

  Opportunity, Marketing, Trying

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• When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.

  Mason Cooley

  Trying, Wave

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• What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Fall, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.228, Harvard University Press

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• We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

  Sylvia Earle

  Loss, Environment

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• A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .

  R. W. Apple

  Media, Hindenburg, Hints

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• Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kindness, Reality, Men

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• Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.

  B. C. Forbes

  Father, Successful, Class

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• People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  People, Routine, Protect

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• In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Book, Loss, Journey

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.80, Library of America

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• The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Pain, Memories, Acceptance

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• How can I no longer bear my weary doom? Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost?

  Maria Gowen Brooks

  Loss, Gains, Bears

  Maria Gowen Brooks (1834). “Zóphiël: Or, The Bride of Seven”, p.140

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• "Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

  Agatha Christie

  Loss, People, Looks

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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• My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people.

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Children, Loss, People

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• Nature lies, disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,- Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart.

  Goodale Sisters

  Lying, Heart, Loss

  Elaine Goodale Eastman, “Goldenrod”

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• The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Loss, Hay, May

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• This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman...is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own.

  Riane Eisler

  Lying, Loss, Men

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• For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.

  Riane Eisler

  Spiritual, Loss, Expression

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• Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

  Janet Flanner

  Beautiful, Loss, Moon

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• The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Loss, Men, Confusion

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.

  Sun Bu'er

  Loss, Moon, Worry

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• All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Feet, May, Human Nature

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• The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Trouble, Truth Is

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.392

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• The credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Credit

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