Disaster Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• I'm a dirty kid, I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Running, Dirty, Kids

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• Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.

  Anne McLellan

  People, United States, Proportion

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• The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

  Claude Bissell

  Taken, Social, Miscellaneous

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• We are deeply saddened by the tremendous loss of life and devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, .. Starbucks has a long tradition of striving to bring together people and communities where we do business. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and many others impacted by this natural disaster; our prayers and thoughts are with all the families who have lost loved ones.

  Howard Schultz

  Prayer, Lost Love, Condolences

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• We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from natural disasters that can't be anticipated.

  Cass Sunstein

  War, Technology, Issues

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• Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.

  Alcee Hastings

  Responsibility, Government, Management

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• Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

  Bennie Thompson

  Skills, Weather, Mind

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• I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.

  Jonathan Adler

  Perseverance, Lying, Should Have

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• Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Victory

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• A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, People, Honor

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “American ideals”

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• All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Diversity, Brotherhood, Together

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1961). “India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961”

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• We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Women, Lying

  "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, (p. 277), 1962.

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