Disaster Quotes - Page 9

• The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

  Cyril Connolly

  War, World, Able

  1944 The Unquiet Grave, pt.2.

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• It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

  Alice Meynell

  Nature, Loss, Men

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.267, eBookIt.com

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• We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Judging, Causes

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

  Gordon Bell

  Ideas, Bigs, Programming

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• Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

  James Herriot

  Animal, Unpredictable Things, Long

  James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

  Rachel Carson

  Lying, Long, Progress

  "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, (p. 277), 1962.

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• In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Thinking, Worry, Kind

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Thinking, California, Miracle

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• Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, Mean

  Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt: With Portrait Frontispiece”

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• Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Unhappy, Dharma

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• You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.

  Johnny Depp

  Thinking, Alcohol, Drug

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• Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.

  Jules Olitski

  Dream, Failure, Mud

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• Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,.

  Charlie Crist

  Years, Trying, Dozen

  "Florida lawsuits allege price gouging", www.cnn.com. August 18, 2004.

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• Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

  Kent Conrad

  Agreement, Recipes, Sugar

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• People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.

  William Eckhardt

  Lying, Views, People

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• With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fall, Australia, Water

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• You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Names, Dancing, World

  Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Replacement”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Impact, Volcanoes, Pigs

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazine—that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an office—I had to pull out.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Editors, San Francisco

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Important, Achieve, Results

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.210, Princeton University Press

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• When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sea, Law, Wonderful

  "Galbraith on Crashes, Japan and Walking Sticks" by Ben Laurance and William Keegan, The Observer, June 21, 1998.

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• Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

  Euripides

  Children, Successful, Men

  Orestes, l.542-3 (translated by M L West, 1987).

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• I still check the weather every day, usually multiple times a day, because I know at a moment`s notice, a dream crop can turn into a disaster.

  Frank Lucas

  Dream, Weather, Moments

  Source: www.today.com

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• I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Numbers, Drug

  "Exclusive: Beyoncé Discusses New H&M Campaign". Interview with Lisa Dougan, www.elle.com. April 15, 2013.

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• I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.

  Jay Baruchel

  Who I Am, Ideas, Voice

  Source: www.esquire.com

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