Disaster Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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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• The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

  George Chapman

  Failure, Responsibility, Order

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• As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually 'natural' at all. ... Human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming. Global warming is causing the oceans to warm. Warm oceans are steroids for storms.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Ocean, Storm

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• There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Poverty, Social, Quick Fixes

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

  Isaiah

  Hands, Wicked, Done

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• The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

  John Olver

  Leadership, War, Iraq

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• Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.

  Rob Thomas

  Life, Moving, Blow

  Rob Thomas (2007). “Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars”, p.46, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.

  Daniel Webster

  Order, Law, Rights

  Daniel Webster (1821). “A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England”, p.91

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• A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

  James Thurber

  Communication, Misunderstood, May

  James Thurber (1961). “Lanterns & lances”

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• Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need, .. The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts.

  Ted Turner

  Communication, Agency, Support

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• I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

  Avi Lewis

  Visions Of The Future, Feels, Very Strong

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university, but I had a series of absolute career disasters and found myself making television programs about the nature of religion and about Christian history and started to discover about other religious traditions, and that was an absolute eye-opener for me.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Religious, Eye

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

  Linus Torvalds

  Trying, Linux, Has Beens

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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• The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Lying, Justice, Ignorant

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• My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato. But it was a huge disaster because the tomato didn't taste good. And then my dad started his own genetics company and I began doing that with him. He and I ran a genetics company for 10 years. And so I sold seeds to Florida.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Dad, Florida, Years

  "'Food Chains' Looks at the Real Cost of Your Cheap Tomatoes". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.

  Peter Beinart

  Thinking, America, Optimism

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Death is not a disaster. Too many births - that is the real disaster.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Real

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• Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, Men, Gentleman

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• The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.

  James Hansen

  Children, Carbon Emissions, Climate

  "Obama's tar sand trap" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead.
  We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster.

  Daniel Kish

  Running, Drag

  "Batman Pt. 2". "Invisibilia" with Lulu Miller, www.npr.org. January 22, 2015.

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• Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

  Paul O'Grady

  Fire, Kitchen, Alarms

  "Paul O'Grady: 'You could torture me on the rack and I'd still refuse to eat balut'" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2011.

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• Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground-the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Fall, Loss

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 24, 2015

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