Disaster Quotes - Page 7

• Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

  Pat Roberts

  Agriculture, President, Fans

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• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Country, Cities, States

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• I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

  Chelsea Clinton

  War, People, Lost Everything

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• 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.

  Linda Hamilton

  Grief, Heart, Loss

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  David Mamet

  Symbolic Meaning, Perception, Tragedy

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• I've been saying for a long time, and I think you'll agree, because I said it to you once, had we taken the oil - and we should have taken the oil - ISIS would not have been able to form either, because the oil was their primary source of income. And now they have the oil all over the place, including the oil - a lot of the oil in Libya, which was another one of her disasters.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Thinking, Isis

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Secretary Clinton is talking about taking out ISIS. "We will take out ISIS." Well, President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Talking, Iraq

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Home, Earth, Feels

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• Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Travel, Home, Joy

  Jane Wilson-Howarth (2011). “How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling”, p.12, Travelers' Tales

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• Death is not a disaster. Too many births - that is the real disaster.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Real

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• When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Perception, Clarity

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• Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, Men, Gentleman

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• The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.

  James Hansen

  Children, Carbon Emissions, Climate

  "Obama's tar sand trap" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

  Antony Beevor

  Military, War, Thinking

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• It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead.
  We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster.

  Daniel Kish

  Running, Drag

  "Batman Pt. 2". "Invisibilia" with Lulu Miller, www.npr.org. January 22, 2015.

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• The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.

  Antal Szerb

  Garden, Chandeliers, Hung

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• History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

  Sarah Vowell

  War, Murder, Natural

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

  Paul O'Grady

  Fire, Kitchen, Alarms

  "Paul O'Grady: 'You could torture me on the rack and I'd still refuse to eat balut'" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2011.

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• I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he has indeed failed in some way, his wife’s disparaging words compound the disaster exponentially. Her cynicism is utterly emasculating, and many times, incredibly subtle. Like a fine, thin blade, it slices deep, penetrating to the very core of his masculine soul.

  Stu Weber

  Husband, Wife, Soul

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• Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground-the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Fall, Loss

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 24, 2015

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• If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

  St. Jerome

  Saying Less, Soul, Devil

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• To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.

  William Kentridge

  Strong, Art, Evil

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• Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?

  Regina Brett

  Attitude, Years, Matter

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