Disaster Quotes - Page 26

• It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

  Lynda Obst

  Success, Moving, Important

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• Most people plan by disaster. They think of what can go wrong and then they master it.

  Richard Bandler

  Thinking, People, Masters

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• The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Home, Earth, Feels

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• I'd never want to have a gun. I don't think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.

  Eric Bolling

  Country, Hate, Gun

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Greatest Treasure, People, Twenties

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

  Janet Burroway

  Children, Land, Apples

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• I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Sleep, Self, Facts

  Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Travel, Home, Joy

  Jane Wilson-Howarth (2011). “How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling”, p.12, Travelers' Tales

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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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• When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Perception, Clarity

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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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• I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

  Antony Beevor

  Military, War, Thinking

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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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• The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.

  Antal Szerb

  Garden, Chandeliers, Hung

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• 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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• 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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• You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.

  Emilie Loring

  Disappointment, Heartache, Sorrow

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• I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he has indeed failed in some way, his wife’s disparaging words compound the disaster exponentially. Her cynicism is utterly emasculating, and many times, incredibly subtle. Like a fine, thin blade, it slices deep, penetrating to the very core of his masculine soul.

  Stu Weber

  Husband, Wife, Soul

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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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• To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.

  William Kentridge

  Strong, Art, Evil

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• Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?

  Regina Brett

  Attitude, Years, Matter

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