Disaster Quotes - Page 27

• You may well be right, and disaster may well come, I had told him. But for me it will always be a point of honour to go on working to prevent disaster, if only to make certain it is the right kind of disaster life needs when it does ultimately come.

  Laurens van der Post

  Doe, Needs, Goes On

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• Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea level? All are hard choices with various merits and pains. The important thing, however, is for America to decide whether the current policy of inaction is really the way we want to deal with the worst natural disaster in our history.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Pain, Engineering, Sea

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• I think it would be a disaster if Donald Trump is elected. It will also be a disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Would Be, Clinton

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a post-disaster or post-conflict situation, we end up with intractable refugee camps that end up staying for decades.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Country, Home, Return

  "Founder of Small Works Cameron Sinclair Afghanistan, Syria, and the Architecture of Empowerment". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When Gimme Shelter was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster.

  Mick Jagger

  War, Storm, Tunes

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Years, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only generation in history that can turn this around - we're one step away from greatness or the biggest disaster since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.

  Louie Psihoyos

  War, Greatness, Creating

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• I had a massive victory over Ted [Cruz], it turned out. Remember Indiana was gonna be the change? I was gonna win New York, I was gonna win, then Indiana? But Indiana was a landslide. You gotta get over it. You know, at some point you gotta get over it. Otherwise we're gonna have three or four new Supreme Court justices that are going to be a disaster for the Republican Party.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Party, Winning

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• After disasters, reproductive healthcare falls by the wayside. Yet babies continue to be born. When all infrastructure falls apart, when the hospitals and all their technological equipment are destroyed, midwives come in handy. They can help women give birth with or without electricity, running water, equipment - even shelter is optional. When babies are ready, they come.

  Robin Lim

  Running, Baby, Fall

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.

  Russell Simmons

  Animal, Thinking, Abuse

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

  Bruce Sterling

  East Berlin, Europe, Cities

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• The Cable Guy was underbudgeted, so it was always a debate about whether we could have more days or certain things that we needed, because the budget was determined before the script was written. So that made it a hard production on everybody. But it's also a funny thing, because it's one of those movies that cost $40 million to make and made $100 million around the world, but at the time, it seemed like a disaster that it didn't make hundreds of millions of dollars, because Jim was on such a tear. But it was actually a successful movie.

  Judd Apatow

  Successful, Funny Things, Guy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I am a Warner from God to America and the nations of the Earth by God's Permission. God is destroying America by degrees with The Forces of Nature, which you have no power against! ... The Death Angel is in America as we speak - these natural disasters are going to increase.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Angel, America, Degrees

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton will be a disaster for our country, a disaster in so many other ways.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Way, Clinton

  Source: time.com

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• We have the most incompetently worked trade deals ever negotiated probably in the history of the world, and that starts with NAFTA. And now they want to go TPP, one of the great disasters.

  Donald Trump

  World, Want, Trade

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if they were bound to go right though to Jersey City, which they used to say was the end of the world.

  Laura E. Richards

  Loss, Rocks, Sea

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Wine, Perspective

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• All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Civilization, Government, Progress

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• It will be another disaster, after Irangate. Not only that, not only this longest Arab - Israeli confrontation: but also the most important and successful war of attrition which still continues in the south of Lebanon.

  Yasser Arafat

  War, Successful, Important

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

  Yasser Arafat

  Administration, Pushing, Policy

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

  Freeman Dyson

  Media, Trying, Rubbish

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• The world will continue to be hit by natural disasters and hateful mass killings, but communities bounce back stronger, so keep going.

  Azran Osman Rani

  Community, Stronger, World

  Source: sea.askmen.com

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• The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

  David Attenborough

  Tonight, Faces, Tomorrow

  "The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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• The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this perpetual state of renewal. And the "contagious magic" is the blind belief that this is the case, and the reason we're careering towards ecological disaster.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Running, Blind Belief, Magic

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I tell my kids no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes. But the world is so competitive that if you're stuck on drugs or alcohol, you're not going to be able to compete. It's going to be a disaster. And you know, it potentially can ruin your life.

  Donald Trump

  Kids, Alcohol, Drug

  "Donald Trump’s interview with Dr. Oz was just as amazingly strange as we thought it would be". www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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