Disaster Quotes - Page 6

• I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

  Catherine the Great

  Courage, Inspirational Life, Bravery

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• The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Creative, Etching

  "A Personal Credo". Essay by Ansel Adams (1943), first published in "American Annual of Photography," 1944; later published in "Photographers on Photography" edited by Nathan Lyons, 1966, and in "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present" edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1988.

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• People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.

  Larry Sabato

  Mother, Men, People

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• Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Bad Ass, Modern Life

  "What's The Next Big Thing?". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. February 23, 2011.

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• Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Fate, Men, Today

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing

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• When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

  Fred Rogers

  Mother, Fear, Caring

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.93, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Next Day, Drawing, Effort

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.919, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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  Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

  Joseph Campbell

  Success, Jobs, Character

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• Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.

  Ian Davis

  Self, People, Empowering

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• There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Needs, Plight, Natural

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• If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Positive, Thinking, Expectations

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• The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Leaving, Ruins

  Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

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• This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.

  Janet Fitch

  Falling In Love, Love You, Natural

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• What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

  George Eliot

  Tragedy, Needs, Gone

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.101

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• The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

  Quentin Crisp

  Relationship, Marriage, Successful

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• The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

  Joe Paterno

  Thinking, Challenges, Made

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• Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

  Thomas John Barnardo

  Opposing, Divided

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• The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

  Colin Wilson

  Rain, Men, Average

  "Another Kind of Life; Victorian Giants review - birth of the outsider" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2018.

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• It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

  Rebecca West

  Success, Vices, Virtue

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• We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

  Kenichi Fukui

  May, Fields, Praying

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• My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Book, Heart, Tragedy

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• Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Blessing, Technology, Hatred

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• There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

  Robert Culp

  Scripts, Wonderful, Direct

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• These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

  James Van Allen

  These Days

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