Quotes About Disaster

I hope that you are a disaster. I'm sorry, but I do. I hope that you are thunder and lightning. I hope you are a forest fire, I hope you kill the dead wood and burn off the rotting leaves. With the canopy gone, the sun can get in. You need new growth. I hope you're terrible and broken and perfect.

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

How could so many well-meaning professionals have been so wrong and been complicit in creating such a disaster? This book attempts to answer that question.

Disaster had shown her her limitations, and he realized now what a fine loyal character she was. Her humility was touching. She never repined at getting the worst of both worlds; she regarded it as the due punishment of her stupidity.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

In the most general sense of progressive thought, the Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there.

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming inMeltdown expected, the wheat is growing thinEngines stop running, but I have no fear'Cause London is drowning and I live by the river

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

An avalanche descends onto the city. A hurricane. Teacups drift off shelves. Paintings slip off nails. In another quarter second, the sirens are inaudible. Everything is inaudible. The roar becomes loud enough to separate membranes in the middle ear.

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. "Know yourself." "Nothing in excess." and, "Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

In my private life, it was a disaster. In my public life, it was fantastic.

When you're external to a publisher, most independent developers live on paranoia. The mainstay of every day is paranoia - every indie company believes their publisher in some way has these Machiavellian plans that will cause disaster for the game and the studio.

Puerto Rico had a number of problems before Maria even hit.

I have a home in Puerto Rico, and I see what is happening on the islands there.

Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

Many corpses will be floating in the sea.

There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.

I think you are a little afraid because you suspect what I suspect - that there was no natural disaster. They did it themselves, to themselves. If this is their own sad handiwork, ... what are our chances of finding friends among people so much to be feared?