Quotes About Disaster

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, that you're free to do anything.

Your whole life, she says, you're searching for disaster—you're auditioning disasters—so you'll be well rehearsed when the ultimate disaster finally arrives.

Then I thought, a sex change, she says, a sexual reassignment surgery [...] It was just the biggest mistake I could make. The biggest challenge I could give myself. She says, You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution'' Tyler whispered, ''toward tragedy and dissolution

Her body continued to be the black box of a jetliner that had crashed with no survivors.

Capitalism is the act of flirting with disaster. It's the mode of economics that sends us over the cliff and charges us for the privilege of getting saved just before we crater. Capitalism manufactures chaos and catastrophe and then manufactures the solution to chaos and catastrophe.

rough guess is that it killed ninety-nine percent of people.

FUBAR." During our exchange, his leg jerked

What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included.

What amulet is there against this disaster? What face can I summon to lay cool upon this heat?

Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.

While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

Paduk and all the rest wrote on steadily, but Krug's failure was complete, a baffling and hideous disaster, for he had been busy becoming an elderly man instead of learning the simple but now unobtainable passages which they, mere boys, had memorized.

I long for some terrific disaster. Earthquake. Spectacular explosion. Her mother is messily but instantly and permanently eliminated, along with everybody else for miles around.

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a side door crashing open in life's full fight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed.

They told us it was a dance, a party, a pageant, so we ran laughing together straight into the disaster.

The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.

In the weeks after the flood, the Humane Society of the United States organized the biggest animal rescue in history. Hundreds of volunteers from all over the country came to New Orleans. They broke into boarded-up houses, plucked dogs and cats from rooftops and trees, and even rescued pigs and goats. Many animals were reunited with their owners. Others were sent to shelters across America to be adopted by new families.

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Lauren Tarshis

a powerful hurricane. In August 2005, their worst predictions came true. Katrina's 125-mile-per-hour winds sent a gigantic wave of water from the Gulf of Mexico into the canals and lakes surrounding New Orleans. All of that water pushed up against the levees, and many of them failed, some crumbling like the walls of sandcastles. Billions of gallons of water gushed into New Orleans. Nearly 1,000 people drowned in the first hours of the flooding.

Some of the world's richest and most famous people flew on the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg,