Disaster Quotes - Page 26

• Jeb [Bush] doesn't really believe I'm unhinged. He said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign. It's been a total disaster. Nobody cares.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Campaigns, Care

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want our country to be taken away from us, and that's what's happening. The policies that we've suffered under other presidents have been a disaster for our country. We want to make America great again.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Taken, America

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more.

  Megan Alexander

  Guy, Presidential, Tragedy

  Source: www.sheknows.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!

  Ian Somerhalder

  Zero, Jobs, Technology

  4 Copy quote

• So if we announce we're going to have a no-fly zone, and others have said this. Hillary Clinton is also for it. It is a recipe for disaster. It's a recipe for World War III. We need to confront Russia from a position of strength, but we don't need to confront Russia from a point of recklessness that would lead to war.

  Rand Paul

  War, Russia, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have to change our whole way, our health care system is a disaster. It's going to implode in 2017, just like you're sitting there. It doesn't work. Nothing works in our country. If I'm elected president, we will win again.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Winning, President

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

  Randall Robinson

  Thinking, Want, Christ

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you're on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.

  Charles Koch

  Hurt, Careers, Track

  Source: freebeacon.com

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Thinking, Community

  Source: freebeacon.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.

  Peter Menzel

  Sex, Stars, Children

  10 Copy quote

• Very little makes me feel vulnerable these days. I hit my absolute apex of vulnerability when I returned to my home state of Louisiana, during the Gulf oil spill disaster, and witnessed mass devastation to every demonstration of life surrounding me - from grass, trees, bayous, insects, to animals and people - we all felt demolished.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Home, Animal, Oil

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time.

  Peter Lynch

  Opportunity, Holy Grail, Littles

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

  James Stockdale

  Hero

  30 Copy quote

• The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fire, California, Forests

  5 Copy quote

• For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Roger, Theory

  4 Copy quote

• You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

  John Irving

  Writing, Self, Stupidity

  4 Copy quote

• Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

  Paul Theroux

  Order, Made, Disruption

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Writing, Sick

  5 Copy quote

• I'm willing to engage or indulge real ideas, but if we don't do something [about global warming], we're all going to die! What's it going to take, a big f--ing disaster with all kinds of people dying? We need to change our priorities fast.

  James Cameron

  Real, Ideas, People

  4 Copy quote

• If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Age, Care

  "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life". Book by Alice Schroeder, October 27, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us.

  Billy Graham

  Mean, Men, World

  4 Copy quote

• U.N. officials said today they desperately need $7 billion to help people cope with disasters, but they're having a hard time getting people to send rescue money. Here's what the UN should do: Invest in bad mortgages, run a bank into the ground, give yourself a bonus, get some spa treatments and, in no time, the government will send you $750 billion.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Hard Times, Government

  4 Copy quote

• Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. .... There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.

  Melanie McGrath

  Army, Winter, Government

  4 Copy quote

• No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Matter, Celebrate, Wells

  4 Copy quote

• On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

  4 Copy quote