Quotes About Disaster

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.

Disaster' is an astrological term meaning 'bad star.

THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason. It was waxing, only one day short of full.

Il mondo moderno è un disastro per chi si diletta a scrivere haiku: quante sillabe ci sono in «generatore elettrico»? Nove? Non ci starebbe neanche nel secondo verso.

People like death and mayhem.

You know it's true… Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.

Here in our solar system, a hundred-meter-wide asteroid sails into Earth every millennium or so at speeds upward of fifty thousand miles an hour, generating a destructive impact equal to 2,500 atomic bombs.

Back then, I had no idea that I'd ever feel unsafe in America or be preparing for disaster myself. We seemed to stand monolithic and invulnerable at the center of the political, cultural, and moral universe, unchallenged as the world's lone superpower. For

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that is much looser than current events.

Responding to a natural disaster is a complex problem.

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.

No, I was just thinking about Chernobyl. That's like a scream from the universe warning us, but we're not paying any attention.

I thought of Natalia: she has escaped – none too soon, perhaps. However often the decision may be delayed, all these people are ultimately doomed. This evening is the dress-rehearsal of a disaster. It is like the last night of an epoch.

Oh, good sir," said Bottom. "I knew as soon as I saw your fool's motley you would bring skill and grand disaster to our play.

The mindless voters of this country are wrong to worry about the dangers of the CIA's internal corruption. When they bring this nation to disaster, it won't be through their villainy; it will be because of their bungling.

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.