Disaster Quotes - Page 23

• History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

  Sarah Vowell

  War, Murder, Natural

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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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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• If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

  St. Jerome

  Saying Less, Soul, Devil

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• You may be right that people say: You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.

  Karl Rove

  Confidence, Jobs, People

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• Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and evolving as a person, or guiding a company through the stormy seas of a fiercely competitive global marketplace-whether your goals are material, emotional, or spiritual-the price of success is the same: thinking, learning. To be asleep at the wheel-to rely only on the known, familiar, and automatized-is to invite disaster.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Success, Spiritual, Jobs

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiration, Character, Improvement

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• This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda.  Together with many people throughout the world, I have admired the heroic strength, faith and resilience demonstrated by so many Filipinos in the face of this natural disaster, and so many others.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Loss, People

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• The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Night, Giving, President

  "Chile's earthquake was horrible - but it could have been so much worse" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2010.

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• In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

  H. L. Mencken

  Victory, Moral, Conquest

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.199, Vintage

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• The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.

  Jim Rohn

  Blow, Opportunity, Wind

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• The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

  Walter Lippmann

  Wise, Hurt, Opponents

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• For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

  James Fallows

  War, People, Vietnam

  "As We Near the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War" by James Fallows, www.theatlantic.com. March 1, 2013.

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• You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Giving, Credit

  Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Professor T S Eliot (2011). “Letters of T. S. Eliot: 1898-1922”, p.482, Yale University Press

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• Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

  William McFee

  Rushing, Wife, Infidelity

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• Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

  Bruce Catton

  Spirit, Dignity, Defeat

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• In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

  Maria Montessori

  Nature, Loss

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.160, Orient Blackswan

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• We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Judging, Causes

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

  Gordon Bell

  Ideas, Bigs, Programming

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• The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

  Rachel Carson

  Lying, Long, Progress

  "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, (p. 277), 1962.

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• Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Thinking, California, Miracle

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• You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.

  Johnny Depp

  Thinking, Alcohol, Drug

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• Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,.

  Charlie Crist

  Years, Trying, Dozen

  "Florida lawsuits allege price gouging", www.cnn.com. August 18, 2004.

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• You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Names, Dancing, World

  Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Replacement”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Impact, Volcanoes, Pigs

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazine—that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an office—I had to pull out.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Editors, San Francisco

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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