Disaster Quotes - Page 20

• With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Way, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1931). “Young India”

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• Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.

  Richard Adams

  Loss, Animal, Past

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.136, Oneworld Publications

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• My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Jobs, Ideas, Parent

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• Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

  Ray Bradbury

  Triumph, Television, Dangerous

  Source: www.tygersofwrath.com

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• We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.

  Richard Bach

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "Richard Bach’s 'Curious Lives'". Interview with Hulbert Cathleen, www.cathleenhulbert.com. 2005.

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• Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with fears, or if we trust the fears of others, we'll choose a path in which our city falls into the sea, or a path in which a third world war vaporizes us, or whatever other disaster is most thrilling or horrifying or fascinating for us.

  Richard Bach

  War, Moving, Fall

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it.

  Leslie Parrish

  Teacher, Welcome, Sometimes

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• With money come the tests. My bankruptcy, which at the time I thought was a disaster, turned out to be a major blessing. It taught me so much! Money is not only an isolator, but it's a magnet, too. It draws all kinds of people to you - you may not want them but it draws them to you anyway. The reverse of that, a bankruptcy, sends everybody away.

  Leslie Parrish

  Blessing, People, May

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.

  Richard Bach

  Mistake, Blessing, Practice

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Loss

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Fever, Moments, Certain

  "Barbara Kingsolver Sets a Fire". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela.

  Rory Carroll

  War, Drug, Looks

  "Covering Hugo ChГЎvez: 'If Only He Ruled As Well As He Campaigned'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. March 8, 2013.

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• If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act of God, or a natural disaster, or something like that, the way we could have through all of human history until 35 or 40 years ago.

  Bill McKibben

  Texas, Years, Pakistan

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy.

  Sandra Fluke

  Pregnancy, Needs, Care

  "Andrea Mitchell interviews Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke moments after speaking with President Obama". Interview with Andrea Mitchell, info.msnbc.com. March 2, 2012.

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• So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster".

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Turtles

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• Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster

  Sam Altman

  Meltdowns, Ifs

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• In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Recovery, Common Humanity

  Remarks by the President on the Situation in Japan, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 17, 2011.

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• I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

  V. P. Singh

  Motivational, Would Be, Prime

  V. P. Singh's remarks in the year the Janata Dal was formed, 1988.

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• Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth cannot be acquired from others by might, for wealth thus taken will impoverish him who takes anything which is not given. Nor can power be thus acquired, for the weakness of the despoiled will prevail against the might of the despoiler.

  Walter Russell

  Business, Taken, Ignorance

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• I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.

  Seymour Hersh

  Lying, People, Henry Kissinger

  Source: www.learntoquestion.com

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• President Obama has been a disaster for America. He's wrecked our economy, saddled our children with more debt than America managed to rack up in 225 years, and gone around the world apologizing for our country - as if the greatest nation in the world needs to apologize for being a land of opportunity and freedom, which we were before Obama became president.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

  O. Henry

  Faces, Stories, Soup

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• In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.

  J. G. Ballard

  Mind, Dying, Together

  J. G. Ballard (2017). “Crash: The Collector’s Edition”, p.38, HarperCollins UK

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• Some people dote on contemplating disasters.

  William Gibson

  People, Apocalypse, Contemplating

  William Gibson (2011). “The Difference Engine”, p.193, Spectra

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• Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Frustration, Garden, Design

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