Disaster Quotes - Page 38

• The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

  Ross Macdonald

  Wall, Book, Past

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• Getting over those unexpected hurdles may not be exactly enjoyable, but ultimately I believe that such challenges and the solutions we find give us more confidence.They teach us with common sense and determination we can turn what looks like a disaster into a triumph.

  Martha Stewart

  Determination, Believe, Common Sense

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• We love disasters that have nothing to do with us

  Mark Doty

  Mark Doty (1993). “My Alexandria: Poems”, p.1, University of Illinois Press

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• A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

  Jared Diamond

  Blueprints, Elites, Capable

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• That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, Reality, Political

  Tariq Ali (2011). “The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad”, p.13, Verso Books

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• There are times when we do not recognize that it is time for us to move forward. When life is ready for us to move and we resist, life will move us by any means necessary. What may feel like a disaster is actually a graduation. Remain open to being guided, supported and protected by the universe.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Mean, May

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Aug 04, 2016

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• We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.

  Fred Thompson

  Successful, Nuclear, Terrorist

  Iowa Campaign Speech "Hands Down" in Days Inn - Manchester, Iowa, December 18, 2007.

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• Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

  Bill Mollison

  Good Life, Lying, Wind

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• Whatever I decide will not work.  It's what people want that will work.  So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else.  What determines that is the availability of food.  If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables.  I have no control over that.  That would be up to people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Vegetables, Availability

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• How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Sea, People, Suffering

  Vivienne Westwood (2016). “Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood”, p.60, Serpent's Tail

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• While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Accomplishment, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural disasters or “acts of God.”  But now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events.

  David Suzuki

  Powerful, Earthquakes, Fire

  David Suzuki (2014). “The David Suzuki Reader, 2nd Edition: A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker”, p.55, Greystone Books Ltd

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• One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Time, Writing, President

  Bill Clinton's News Conference With President Boris Yeltsin of Russia in Hyde Park, New York, October 24, 1995.

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• A hotter, moister atmosphere is an atmosphere primed to trigger disasters.

  Michael Oppenheimer

  Atmosphere, Triggers, Hotter

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• Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Baby, Thinking, Careers

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• There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters.

  Rod Dreher

  Running, People, Three

  "Boston Reporters Join Long List of Heroes" by Stephanie Slade, www.usnews.com. April 16, 2013.

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• I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So I'll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we're going to have tragedies as a result of that. I'm telling you right up front.

  Garry McCarthy

  Gun, Fire, Hands

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• The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be where you are, when you are. That is a universal truth for everyone. The important thing is how you respond, what you decide to do, and when you decide to do it.

  Chris Murray

  Hard Times, Important, Good Times

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• One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

  Vito Fossella

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• I love the strength of white blonde. Some people talk about having disasters while dyeing their hair - in my opinion you can never have a blonde disaster . . . I am always trying the latest products - whatever is new goes on my hair.

  Donatella Versace

  Hair, White, Always Trying

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• There is no greater disaster than discontent.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Discontent, Greater

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• Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.

  Peter Diamandis

  Thinking, Race, Space

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• It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  World, Ends, End Of The World

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• The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

  Stephen Leacock

  Europe, America, Sorrow

  Stephen Leacock (1945). “Last Leaves”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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• We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.

  Wayne LaPierre

  People, Drug, Style

  "Stand and Fight" by Wayne LaPierre, dailycaller.com. February 13, 2013.

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