Disaster Quotes - Page 34

• In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Iraq, President, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

  Leon Panetta

  Sea, Relief, Rising

  21 Copy quote

• There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

  Bill Parcells

  New York, Nfl, Two

  7 Copy quote

• Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

  Vladimir Putin

  Looks, Natural, Chechnya

  Address to the Residents of the Chechen Republic, en.kremlin.ru. March 16, 2003.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

  Eric Ries

  Busy, Company, Products

  "Interview: Eric Ries, Author Of The Lean Startup". Interview with Olivia Solon, www.wired.com. January 17, 2012.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

  Eli Roth

  Loss, People, Feelings

  Interview with Jen Ortiz, www.gq.com. May 9, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Economic, Lost

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2012.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Kids, Ideas, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Climate, Looks

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.316, Princeton University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Europe, Fans, World

  4 Copy quote

• When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Character, Who I Am, Play

  4 Copy quote

• Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.

  James Surowiecki

  Shells, May, Victim

  "Disaster Economics". www.newyorker.com. December 3, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.

  James Surowiecki

  Construction Workers, Cities, Matter

  "Creative Destruction?" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

  James Surowiecki

  Safety, Environmental, Executives

  "Fuel for Thought". www.newyorker.com. July 23, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny Life, People, Luck

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, People, Office

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being 'In Your Face'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. February 25, 2010.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Light, Assessment, Effort

  "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

  Francis Collins

  Research, Periods, Hypothesis

  4 Copy quote

• Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, People, Deserve Better

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Europe, People

  4 Copy quote

• As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, War, Cancer

  4 Copy quote

• Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fall, Lost Everything, Static

  11 Copy quote

• Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Men, Space, Wife

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1960). “Laughter in the Dark”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

  Kathy Acker

  Limitless, Natural, Repressed

  Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, king of the pirates”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Russia, Forgotten

  22 Copy quote