Quotes About Disaster

disaster, a word that comes from the French des astres, or "from the stars.

BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

It shows us that it is never wise to turn an entirely deaf ear when the report of a disaster comes to hand, because in this instance the main facts were conveyed across country, striking the great arterial caravan route at Unyanyembé, and getting at once into a channel that would ensure the intelligence reaching Zanzibar. On the other hand, false reports never lag on their journey:—how often has Livingstone been killed in former years!

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?

All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.

What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.

I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected him from your city.

Your discipline or lack of discipline will protect you from or expose you to disaster. Practice discipline. Be consistent.

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

I said '17 - right now, this year, "'17 is going to be a disaster." I'm very good at this stuff.

Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're capturing it with ducks.

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.

Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will be of great value

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?