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Quotes About Disaster

One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.
~ Rod Stewart
I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.
~ Anna Bligh
Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.
~ Fritjof Capra
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
~ Susan Sontag
People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.
~ Larry Sabato
To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.
~ Midori Snyder
Nobody can stop natural disaster, we are the cause and we are the remedy.
~ Santosh Kalwar
The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.
~ James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.
~ Joe Hill, The Fireman
There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
~ Seneca the Younger
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.
~ Jamie Sives
WERE TRANSPARENCY EXISTS NOT!, THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR FRUSTRATION AND DISASTER THEREIN
~ Kgosietsile Martin Timothy
The press lives on disaster.
~ Clement Attlee
Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.
~ Robert Cray
The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.
~ Greg Bear
In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
~ John P. Roche
Disaster is around the corner. It is, it's lurking, it's incredibly negative. Am I thinking about the bad times ahead? Jesus, no. I've got to remain positive, I'm going to fight this negativity!
~ Martin O'Neill
Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.
~ Abdus Salam
Church doctrine had it otherwise: Earth was at the center. The conflict between Galileo's telescope and Church dogma brought disaster to Galileo, but in the end the telescope prevailed, and the dramatic story of the confrontation taught Galileo's most important lesson.
~ William H. Cropper
Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isnt always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.
~ David Emerald
About the only thing we can imagine is catastrophe.
~ David Graeber
No harm," he said as he danced on, cutting the air. Only now, the snowflakes began to bleed as he cut them. Battle of white and scarlet... "Oto-san, what can I do?" I wept in the dream, my tears freezing to my cheeks. "Dance," he said, his face still and calm, his blade whistling through the air. Blood flew from the tip of the sword, painting characters of death and disaster across the white ground. Dancing.
~ David Kudler