Best Disaster Quotes

Disasters teach us humility.

It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.

When you have a goal to reach, you will be strong automatically. And you will be patient automatically. If you don’t have a goal, your life will be a disaster. You will lose yourself and you will lose your soul.

I really like Barack Obama. I think that he’s working very hard. He’s trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world. The previous administration was a total disaster, a total catastrophe. He was handed a pretty bad deck of cards. And I’m not saying I agree with everything he’s doing. He’s a champion. I mean, he won against all odds. When he first announced, people were giving him virtually no chance. And he’s just done something that’s amazing.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

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

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.

Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.

There’s nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man… to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that’s a recipe for disaster.

All across the world, …increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

We need only take our heads out of the sand to see clearly that interventionism not only has failed to provide the promised something-for-nothing, but has led to all sorts of undesirable consequences. Indeed, many are just beginning to realize that we are moving towards disaster even though we have been on a wrong heading for decades.

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.

This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.

Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only generation in history that can turn this around – we’re one step away from greatness or the biggest disaster since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.

The nature of human beings is that they’d far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

I am a Warner from God to America and the nations of the Earth by God’s Permission. God is destroying America by degrees with The Forces of Nature, which you have no power against! … The Death Angel is in America as we speak – these natural disasters are going to increase.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

The European economy is collapsing! The trans-Atlantic region is a disaster area in terms of economy.

The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere of human attainments, who are unregenerate or unspiritual, to dictate as to what her beliefs shall be.

One does not learn anything except by believing something, and — conversely — if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit.

When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

I don’t think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

My father was a truck driver. That’s where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

With money come the tests. My bankruptcy, which at the time I thought was a disaster, turned out to be a major blessing. It taught me so much! Money is not only an isolator, but it’s a magnet, too. It draws all kinds of people to you – you may not want them but it draws them to you anyway. The reverse of that, a bankruptcy, sends everybody away.

The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people’s intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.

We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.