Disaster Quotes - Page 25

• If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Poverty, Misery

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• A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Would Be, Pakistan

  "Noam Chomsky on WikiLeaks, Obama’s Targeted Assassinations and Latin America’s Break from the U.S". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 14, 2012.

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• Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Real, Successful, Succeed

  "John Rhys-Davies on 'Indiana Jones' and almost passing on 'Lord Of The Rings'". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 18, 2012.

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• We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

  Diane Ackerman

  Hero, Thinking, Compassion

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• One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

  Henry Rollins

  Talking, Persons

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• I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Thinking, Doctrine

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• If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

  Greg Giraldo

  Issues, Balance, Trying

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 30, 2004.

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• Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. We could refer to all the components of personal and family preparedness, not in relation to holocaust or disaster, but in cultivating a life-style that is on a day-to-day basis its own reward.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Holocaust, Style, Rewards

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• Well I don't know what the city of Hollywood knows about foreign policy, but do I know that a lot of people do learn and educate themselves about policy and I don't have to be a policy expert to know that this will be a disaster.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Cities, People, Hollywood

  "Antiwar actor: 'I don't have to be a policy expert'". "In the Crossfire" with Paul Begala, Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2003.

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• A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.

  Janeane Garofalo

  War, Humanitarian, Economy

  "Antiwar actor: 'I don't have to be a policy expert'". "In the Crossfire" with Tucker Carlson, James Carville, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2003.

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• We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Fire, Next, Natural

  "Malcolm Turnbull meets bushfire volunteers as Esperance community comes to terms with its loss". Interview with Lucy Martin, www.abc.net.au. December 9, 2015.

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• What we're going for, in those humorous moments, is the absurdity of it all. The craziness of the night manager offering them an umbrella in the height of what is a horrible disaster was like, "What?!" That's Andy Greenfield, and he nailed the audition. He's the sweetest guy in the world, as is often the case with those guys, but on camera, he's so creepy that a lot of us kept saying, "You know, Andy, don't look at us like that anymore, okay? You're scaring us."

  Remi Aubuchon

  Humorous, Night, Offering

  Source: collider.com

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• Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.

  Beaumont Newhall

  World, Events, Peculiar

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• I let a friend set me up on a blind date. It was a disaster. She ended up being a burn victim. By the end of the night.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Night, Dating, Blind

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2010

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• There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.

  Victor Niederhoffer

  Winning, Victory, Way

  Victor Niederhoffer (1998). “The Education of a Speculator”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons

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• The only option to avoid war is the departure of the number one warmonger in the world US President George W Bush. His policy has brought disaster to the United States. This crazy man should go and also his subject, disciple and follower UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

  Naji Sabri

  Crazy, War, Men

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• The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Photography, Keys, Ideas

  Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier (1992). “Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.

  Anita Shreve

  Children, Heal, Wells

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• Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

  Jools Holland

  Piano, Would Be, Hold Me

  "'A labour of love'" by Jools Holland, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.

  Rumi

  Grieving, Happens, Happenings

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• He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek refuge for his crushed self-confidence in the solace of a 'saving lie'. If the longed-for success is not forthcoming, if the vicissitudes of fate destroy in the twinkling of an eye what had to be painstakingly built up by years of hard work, then he simply multiplies his exertions. He can look disaster in the eye without despairing.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Lying, Hard Work, Eye

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on poor countries. The world's rich millions can afford environmental extremism; its poor billions can't. Climate change pseudo-science about human causality has been exposed repeatedly. What's less appreciated is that there aren't more natural disasters in need of an explanation.

  Leon Louw

  Country, Real, Silly

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• I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who lives one step above the fray. A God who has that British stiff upper lip even when disaster is looming. When I read my Bible, though, I keep running into a different God, and I'm not pleased. This God says he "hates" sin. Well, he usually yells it. Read the prophets. It's just one harangue after another, all in loud decibels. And when the shouting is over, then comes the pouting. ... When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car.

  Mark Galli

  Running, Hate, Self

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• The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration.

  Noam Chomsky

  Suicide, Europe, Austerity

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• There have always been people in American politics that wanted America to be more like the rest of the world. And In 2008, one of them was elected president of this country and the result has been a disaster.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, America, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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