Disaster Quotes

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

The press lives on disaster.

I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense.

Always try to turn a marketing disaster into a marketing opportunity.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

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

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

To copy is to invite disaster.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

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

The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.

Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing.

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

I'd never want to have a gun. I don't think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

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.

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

We love disasters that have nothing to do with us

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

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

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

Disaster comes only because of ignorance.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

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

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.