Quotes About Disaster

Living a selfish life is a recipe for disaster

It's actually more than 700 case studies that show that, especially in times of crisis, we show our best selves. And we get this explosion of altruism and cooperation. This happens again and again after natural disasters, after earthquakes and after floodings.

When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner.

I was watching the devastations of the Kashmir floods, and a reporter was asking a local, who had just lost her house and her son, how she was feeling. I was stunned at the insensitivity. I did a 10-15 second satire on it and put it up on Facebook.

This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.

Nau had been very careful that enough nukes remained. If necessary, he could play the old, old game of total disaster management. So what can be salvaged? He

The experiences people have in a large hotel do not constitute entire human destinies, full and completed. They are fragments merely, scraps, pieces. The people behind its doors may be unimportant or remarkable individuals. People on the way up or people on the way down the ladder of life. Prosperity and disaster may be separated by no more than the thickness of a wall.

I never ignore the phone because it could be a war breaking out or an earthquake.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in your car!" Babe, you're a magnet for disaster.

Such a careful chef would never have caused this disaster. And no one who makes such tasty porridge could be responsible for this disarray, she announced. Whatever-after did you add to it? Just a pinch of cinnamon, some of my favorite spices, and a little bit of cream. Rosabella was happy to share her cooking tips. Momma Bear continued to smile, but when she thought Rosabella wasn't looking, she added some more honey. Rosabella laughed to herself. Momma Bear must have a sweet tooth.

Squeezing too hard on people outside the underworld—or "legits"—was a recipe for disaster. Squeeze legits too hard and they run to the police. Montagna didn't seem to understand or care.

Gooooood afternoon, this is meteorologist Sandy 'the Breeze' Bancroft, with Disaster Watch! We're reporting live from the ultimate death-doom-and-destruction destination - that's right... Pompeii!

Just because we cannot imagine our actions leading to disaster, it doesn't mean that such a disaster cannot happen.

As Hans Bernd Gisevius, a civil servant under Hitler and a member of the German Resistance, puts it: One of the vital lessons that we must learn from the German disaster is the ease with which a people can be sucked down into the morass of inaction; let them as individuals fall prey to overcleverness, opportunism, or cowardliness and they are irrevocably lost.

And as Lindbergh's election couldn't have made clearer to me, the unfolding of the unforeseen was everything. Turned wrong way round, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied as History, harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity

Socialism invariably leads to economic disaster and often to the government slaughter of its citizens. Even under less severe forms of socialism, regimes live off their nation's wealth that was accumulated before socialist control, until they inevitably squander it.7

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

People who live on solid ground, underneath safe skies, know nothing of this; they are like the English POWs in Dresden who continued to pour tea and dress for dinner, even as the alarms went off, even as the city became a towering ball of fire. Born of a green and pleasant land, a temperate land, the English have a basic inability to conceive

That feeling. That's the real difference in a life. People who live on solid ground, underneath safe skies, know nothing of this; they are like the English POWs in Dresden who continued to pour tea and dress for dinner, even as the alarms went off, even as the city became a towering ball of fire. Born of a green and pleasant land, a temperate land, the English have a basic inability to conceive of disaster, even when it is man-made.