Disaster Quotes

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.