Quotes About Disaster

There goes your f#*king canoe!

intentions and results. Cooper's intentions in killing Peters and releasing the video had been good; the results had been a disaster. Did that make his intentions wrong? If so, that meant morality was really only a way of talking about how we wished things were. Hope, empathy, idealism—maybe they didn't matter. Maybe the only

The glass wall behind must have blown out as well, four stories of lethal shards surfing the roar of air and fire.

The truth was, everything in life came down to intentions and results. Cooper's intentions in killing Peters and releasing the video had been good; the results had been a disaster. Did that make his intentions wrong? If so, that meant morality was really only a way of talking about how we wished things were. Hope, empathy, idealism—maybe they didn't matter. Maybe the only thing that counted was results.

Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated cows floating by, survivors huddled on rooftops. Thousands have drowned. Global warming is held accountable: People must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual.

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.

I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

Snooki is a walking disaster, everywhere she goes she falls, everything she touches she drops, it's not her fault, she just attracts drama.

Fundamentalism, dispensational premillennialism, the Higher Life movement, and Pentecostalism were all evangelical strategies of survival in response to the religious crises of the late nineteenth century. In different ways each preserved something essential of the Christian faith. But together they were a disaster for the life of the mind.

Bad timing can be as calamitous as good timing is fortuitous.

you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl's Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor's safety.

My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

Streets full of water. Please Advise.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

Some refer to it as a cultural Chernobyl. I think of it as a cultural Stalingrad.

There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion, but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.

Early one seasonably cold morning, the first day of November, in the year of our lord 1952...the Cuyahoga River caught fire. The river burned. It wasn't so much the river, but a huge oil slick *on* the river, though distinguishing one from the other was more a job for a chemist than a lay observer.

There's a hole as big as Lucifer's arse in the hull where the powder barrels blew out,

When a nation follows God, government spends money on people. When a nation abandons God, government spends money on weapons. There is no greater poverty than greed. There is no greater disaster than desire. There is no greater curse than wanting more. The greatest peace is perfect contentment.