Disaster Quotes - Page 23

• I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Generosity, Resistance

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• I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

  Elton John

  Independent, People, Identity

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• Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

  Patience Strong

  Garden, Rhythm Of Life, Triumph

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• An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Artist, Self, Criticism

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• Here's the thing - you can't be careful about what you pick because what looks like on paper is going to be a great script has often turned out to be a disaster, so there's no way to know what's going to work or to pick the right thing.

  Halle Berry

  Looks, Paper, Way

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• It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone. Although political shows are really popular now, I think what sets this apart is this marriage and this family dynamic, and this way of revealing that people in positions of power or who have public careers are also real people. They have children and lives, and they have to deal with all of the things that everybody else does.

  Tim Daly

  Children, Real, War

  Source: collider.com

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• I wanted to move away from the disaster airplane movies that we have seen in the past and do something that was more mysterious, and delay until the end the resolution of the mystery, and then have to deal with the plane itself.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Moving, Airplane, Past

  Source: collider.com

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• When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

  Jared Harris

  Fun, Long, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• Being rational - along with being clear and honest - are important if we are to create the needed shift in fundamental thinking necessary to make it possible to pull this world back from the brink of multiple disasters on ecological, cultural, political, and economic fronts.

  Robert Jensen

  Thinking, Political, Important

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• I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none of the actual passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.

  Paul Rudnick

  Couple, Real, Sea

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• What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

  David Miliband

  Commitment, Political, Environmental

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• Don't wait for a disaster to get to know your neighbors.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Waiting, Neighbor, Knows

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• I've never been to the Oscars, but if I was ever invited to the Oscars, I would have this weird paranoia of terrorism. It just feels like The Poseidon Adventure, everyone in their tuxes. Somehow, I feel like the whole time I would be looking for where the nearest exit was, and in a cold sweat about some kind of man-made disaster, like a terrorist strike or something. It seems like such a scary, claustrophobic proposition.

  Mike White

  Adventure, Men, Sweat

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• You need to write a book, what's going on with my serve. It's disaster. I don't bend my legs. Instead of jumping forward, I'm kicking it too much instead of hitting it. ... I drop my head, I don't hold the left arm. It's so much, that you just - I don't know. I know this, and I'm still so stupid that I continue doing it.

  Dinara Safina

  Stupid, Book, Writing

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• We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Joy, Never Quit

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• Smile...it kills time between disasters.

  Barbara Johnson

  Barbara Johnson (1992). “Splashes of Joy in the Cesspools of Life”, p.141, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Jesus, Fighting, Thinking

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• I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

  Michael Palin

  Trying, Life Is, Mistrust

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• If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Powerful, Giving, Care

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• A person who suffers from a character disorder frequently has significant behavioral or emotional problems that will almost certainly spell disaster for any marital relationships. One of the most difficult aspects of identifying people with character disorders is that they tend to be unusually charming. People with these kinds of disorders tend to lie, cheat, exaggerate, and take advantage of others.

  Neil Clark Warren

  Lying, Character, Emotional

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• As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Brain, Way

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• He (George W. Bush) should depart. He should go away from the presidency and let the Americans lead an ordinary life with other nations, not a life of aggression, a policy of aggression against other nations. This policy has brought about disasters to the U.S. So for the U.S. to live properly with the world and for the world nations to live in peace, this crazy man should go.

  Naji Sabri

  Crazy, Men, Going Away

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• When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Far Away, Incompetence

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• Each disaster became a steppingstone for growth.

  Erin Brockovich

  Growth

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• Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.

  Bee Dawson

  Garden, Numbers, Bird

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