Quotes About Disaster

But disaster doesn't sort us out by preferences; it drags us into emergencies that require we act, and act altruistically, bravely, and with initiative in order to survive or save the neighbors, no matter how we vote or what we do for a living.

The U.S. Post Office at San Francisco forwarded unstamped mail, often written on scraps and oddments, from the survivors to destinations around the country. ... There were callous and fearful authorities who lashed out, but also institutions such as the post office that just quietly broke the rules to make life a little less disastrous.

Earlier disaster scholars tended to imagine that in natural disaster, all parties share common interests and goals, but contemporary sociologists see disasters as moments when subterranean conflicts emerge into the open. Tierney said, "Elites fear disruption of the social order, challenges to their legitimacy." Disasters provide both, lavishly.

Fritz's first radical premise is that everyday life is already a disaster of sorts, one from which actual disaster liberates us.

In New York itself, hospitals prepared for a huge influx of wounded, and a triage center was set up on the Chelsea Piers, but the disaster had been so brutal and absolute that there were only the living and the dead and few in between

reimposed or a new one, perhaps more oppressive or perhaps more just and free, like the disaster utopia, will arise.

We have to find a better way for work to work. The seven-day workweek is shaping up as a personal, societal, and business disaster. It robs people of passion and pleasure, destroys family and community stability, and sets up business organizations to ultimately fail once they've burned out their employees and burned through ever more manipulative and oppressive strategies.

This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.

Felaket, deÄŸiÅŸimdir. Üzerine bol gelen, kapüÅŸonlu bir giysinin içindeki f?rsatt?r o.

Many will remember with affection the day Basil Fawlty's car broke down during his vital mission to save Gourmet Night from disaster. He gave it fair warning, counted to three, then got out of the car, seized a tree branch and thrashed it to within an inch of its life.

In my opinion, every love, happy or unhappy, is a real disaster once you give yourself over to it entirely.

Ipak, ništa tako ne može da natera ljude da pametno misle kao dobra katastrofa.

Anne Trenchard was a practical woman, and one of her chief virtues was that she did not linger over a disaster but sought, almost immediately, to remedy what could be remedied and to accept what could not.

the sympathy calls had been shot through with a subtle, yet unmistakably morbid glee. The queen had at last been nudged from her throne. It had taken disaster to do it, but still.

There are dinner parties ruined by guests, and there are dinner parties ruined by hosts, and then there are dinner parties when everyone contributes to the disaster.

And Callie said this as someone whose life was a train wreck inside of a crashing airplane inside of the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb.

Nebo: lidé prý vidÄ›li neÅ¡tÄ›stí, netajili se s tím a varovali. Ale to v politice neplatí, jestliže to nevedlo k ?in?m a jestliže tyto ?iny nebyly úsp?šné.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

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

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.