Quotes About Disaster

Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

worried capitalist is like a comet: he always presages some disaster for the world.

Precisamos da desgraça para escavar certas minas misteriosas escondidas na inteligência humana; precisamos da pressão para fazer a pólvora explodir.

Love is ancient and mysterious and you can't mess with it. If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster.

Some people can't be warned away from disaster, you can try, you can put up every alert, but they'll still go their own way.

It was the first of many marital disasters, but on the night she eloped anything seemed possible, even happiness.

In her opinion, everything goes wrong if you give it enough time. Close your eyes, count to three, and chances are you'll have some sort of disaster creeping up on you.

every May there would be a town gathering to remember this day so that no one would forget how easily everyday life could be suddenly disrupted, for disaster was always a moment away, in the wind, in a red rain, in the illness that had spread through the village on a beautiful spring day.

Now, as the labor began, it was the storm she recalled. The thrash of wind and trees and the quiet terror that had kept her flat in her bed, wide awake, anticipating disaster but unable to rise to avert it—or to shake her husband, to call for help. There was only silence now, in the small living room. There

Saw in her mind's eye that delicious moment when Stan—a version of the piano player himself, when you thought about it—smiled the sweet self-satisfied smile that always preceded the double take, the panic, the inevitable disaster. (Down, down, down the keyboard he went and down, down, down in her mind's eye went the poor piano.) Images that stayed with her even as John woke and

E, ainda assim, uma euforia. A euforia indizível que se sente quando um desastre galopante guarda a promessa de libertar a pessoa de toda a responsabilidade de sua própria vida.

I feel like I'm standing in the wake of a volcano erruption.

my man world will blow up

It was hard not to wonder, as Whitney put the Tesla in park, whether this could possibly be true. The nature of disaster preparedness was so weird, as no one actually knew which disaster to be scared of. Steel doors, for example, weren't going to help with anthrax. Fifty years of gourmet freeze-dried foodstuffs, which a nearby project promised, weren't going to fix a bad marriage.

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem. Did you ever read about the bacterium that thrives in volcanoes, right on the edge of boiling rock? That's us. Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe.

You're brooding, Leonard, my friend. What's the problem?" "I blew it with Fitzgerald." "I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit. It was more like a nuclear disaster.

Probably fire and pestilence to follow, could be a plague of boils and locusts, maybe an egg and bacon shortage to top things off.

It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster.

They want things to be fair," said Trace. "There's no such thing as fair. Attempts to impose fairness upon an unfair universe usually end in disaster.