Quotes About Disaster

Scientists estimate that it took a thousand years for an inch of topsoil to accumulate on the arid high plains. It was the work of a moment to blow it away. Topsoil exposed by the disc plows turned to dust, and the dust began to eddy, roil, and lift on the wind. "Rolling dusters," they were called, or "black blizzards." There were fourteen of them in 1932. The year after that, thirty-eight.

The same week another disaster overtook us... vicious pelting of hail...What to do? We hardly know, but, as the saying goes, we have the bear by the tail and it looks like a poor time to let go.

The mountains had exploded and for three days darkness covered the land. When the sun returned at last, it was not the same golden sun which had shone down on the Roman Empire a week before. It was a counterfeit, gleaming dully in a colourless sky above a blasted world.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Sheep farming in this country is a slow-burning ecological disaster, which has done more damage to the living systems of this country than either climate change or industrial pollution. Yet scarcely anyone seems to have noticed.

No, the Great Disaster had shown no predilection toward sparing the nice people, and the survivors had not been rendered pleasanter as the result of the ordeal through which they had passed.

Glory may be everlasting, yet it is fleeting as well—soon forgotten in the aftermath of even the most famous of victories if they lead to greater disasters.

All around, the sea was full of ships. Some were burning, some were sinking, some had been smashed to splinters.

it was well known among rivermen that having a preacher and a gray mare on board was an invitation to disaster.

the true value and power of the social network: an open channel of communication that can not only entertain but also unite us in a common cause, from responding to a disaster to — as the Arab Spring showed us — toppling a government.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

I believe that 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.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Birlikte geçirilen bir felaket kadar insanlar? birbirine baÄŸlayan hiçbir ÅŸey yoktur.

How can I accept that disaster has overtaken my life when the world continues to move so tranquilly through its cycles?

Kaimo gyventojai nuolat rezga planus, kaip pakenkti kaimynams - linki jiems parazit?, nederliaus, finansin?s katastrofos, - ta?iau ištikus krizei visi pasireng? pad?ti.

They didn't know that a bomb had come that could crack all our bridges and roads and reduce them to jumbles, and we would be as poor as they someday, and stretching out our hands in the same, same way.

I was joking with my agent that I'm going to get typecast for a water-disaster actor.

Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.

In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.