Disaster Quotes - Page 30

• Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

  Ray Bradbury

  Triumph, Television, Dangerous

  Source: www.tygersofwrath.com

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• With money come the tests. My bankruptcy, which at the time I thought was a disaster, turned out to be a major blessing. It taught me so much! Money is not only an isolator, but it's a magnet, too. It draws all kinds of people to you - you may not want them but it draws them to you anyway. The reverse of that, a bankruptcy, sends everybody away.

  Leslie Parrish

  Blessing, People, May

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.

  Richard Bach

  Mistake, Blessing, Practice

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Fever, Moments, Certain

  "Barbara Kingsolver Sets a Fire". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela.

  Rory Carroll

  War, Drug, Looks

  "Covering Hugo ChГЎvez: 'If Only He Ruled As Well As He Campaigned'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. March 8, 2013.

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• Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy.

  Sandra Fluke

  Pregnancy, Needs, Care

  "Andrea Mitchell interviews Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke moments after speaking with President Obama". Interview with Andrea Mitchell, info.msnbc.com. March 2, 2012.

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• So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster".

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Turtles

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• In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Recovery, Common Humanity

  Remarks by the President on the Situation in Japan, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 17, 2011.

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• 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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• When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

  O. Henry

  Faces, Stories, Soup

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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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• Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Frustration, Garden, Design

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• It is not understood that before life an individual decides to
  live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the
  body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born.
  He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness
  or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will
  kill a person who does not want to die.

  Seth

  Gun, Epidemics, Self

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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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• What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

  Isaiah

  Running, Afar, Riches

  Isaiah 10:1-4, www.biblegateway.com.

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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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• To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.

  Peter Abrahams

  Inspiring, Grace, Tragedy

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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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• If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

  Susan George

  Economy, Ifs

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• We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.

  Robert Hughes

  Loss, Issues, Drug

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• I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate and how they deal with disaster because they're worldly enough to have a bit of irony and wryness about their own circumstances. So, I think the humour comes out of that.

  Colin Firth

  Character, Thinking, Woven

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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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• If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.

  Karen Armstrong

  Children, Grief, Want

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

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• When faced with disaster, learn to laugh faster.

  Robert G. Allen

  Laughing, Faster

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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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