Disaster Quotes - Page 2

• Like everyone else in the world, I've been devastated by the loss and suffering of so many in South Asia....As a mother, I cannot imagine the pain that they are experiencing. We can all see that it's going to take a long time for those people to rebuild their lives, and they will need our help for years to come.

  Celine Dion

  Mother, Pain, Loss

  "Brad Pitt bars international journalists; Donald Trump's exes say 'no' to wedding invite; fifth time the charm for David Carradine?". Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. January 13, 2005.

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• It's a recipe for disaster.

  Cody Lundin

  Survival, Recipes

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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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• 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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• WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Affliction, Tongue, Unexpected

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2539, Delphi Classics

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• There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

  Rudolf Bing

  Night, Sigh Of Relief, Two

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• I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Enemy

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.214, Cambridge University Press

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• As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,.

  Walter Scott

  Recovery, Deployment, Needs

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• He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

  John Buchan

  Firsts, Discouragement, Masters

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• After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina need our help. Entire communities have been destroyed. Families have been torn apart. Many are still missing. Tens of thousands remain homeless. As the recovery proceeds, we in the Senate pledge to do everything in our power to help rebuild the shattered lives across the Gulf Coast.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Recovery, Government, Profound

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• These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  America, United States, Hurricanes

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• I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.

  David Graeber

  Thinking, Exodus, Seems

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• There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.

  Walter Mosley

  People, Resistance, Guilty

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• Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing.

  Debra L. Lee

  Brother, Real, Healing

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• The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.

  Craig Reucassel

  Media, Firsts, Stories

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• There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mistake, Thank God, Burned

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• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Eugenics, Israeli Occupation, Lebanon

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• I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

  Henry Miller

  Night, Mushrooms, Roots

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Organization, June, Proud

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• Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fight Club Book, Destruction, Fight Club Novel

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

  Harold Nicolson

  Relationship, Marriage, Successful

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• If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves

  Gaylord Nelson

  Issues, Addresses, Environment

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• If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Numbers, Literature, Layers

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• We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Age, Should

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