Disaster Quotes

Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.

~ Joyce Rachelle

And then it struck him what lay buried far down under the earth on which his feet were so firmly planted: the ominous rumbling of the deepest darkness, secret rivers that transported desire, slimy creatures writhing, the lair of earthquakes ready to transform whole cities into mounds of rubble. These, too, were helping to create the rhythm of the earth. He stopped dancing and, catching his breath, stared at the ground beneath his feet as though peering into a bottomless hole.

~ Haruki Murakami

When I got home, my roof was gone. Overnight the weight of the snow became too much to carry. What tipped the scale? Think about it: there must have been a final snowflake that did it, a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a milligram that made all the difference.

~ Lauren Oliver

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

~ Walker Percy

Always be prepared. Preparation with the anointing of the Holy Spirit secures success. Not being prepared and not having the anointing of the Holy Spirit, spells utter disaster

~ Pr. Paddick Van Zyl

If your life is a miserable disaster, you might want to consider, that it's because you are doing something wrong.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

~ Joey Comeau

Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.

~ Pandora Poikilos

The few trees still upright were stripped of their branches, lonely flagpoles without a nation to claim them.

~ Mike Mullin

How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing could happen to others, but not to them. That is the way!

~ William Dean Howells

I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.

~ Mike Rogers

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

~ Will Durst

He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

~ Robert Dallek

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

~ Orlando Bloom

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

~ Orlando Bloom

No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

~ Vivek Wadhwa

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

~ Newt Gingrich

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.

~ Richard Ben-Veniste

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

~ Irwin Redlener

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

~ Stella Young

Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion.

~ Martin Jacques

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

~ Anne Wilson Schaef

I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

~ Lenny Abrahamson

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

~ Meg Whitman

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

~ Emo Philips

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

~ Elon Musk

When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods.

~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.

~ Jon Porter

I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times.

~ Jennifer Garner