Disaster Quotes

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

Jon Meacham

SecurityOthersDisasterTakeSocial

My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.

Boy George

LifeMy LifeAlwaysDisasterBeen

I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

Sydney Pollack

NightWake UpDisasterUpMiddle

When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner.

Sheri Fink

DeathTeamCareStudyDisasterBeen

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Norman Ralph Augustine

ManagementChanceTopDisasterLeft

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

CourageCreditTwoDisasterFrance

When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

LoveCareSomeoneYouDisasterThem

'The Disaster Artist' book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there's something so rewarding about creating something from scratch.

Greg Sestero

BookArtistCareerCreatingDisaster

Like a nuclear disaster, the fallout from the meltdown of Syria threatens to be with us for decades, and the longer it is permitted to continue, the more severe the damage will be.

David Petraeus

WillMoreDisasterUsLikeContinue

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

Cedric Richmond

AmericanLeavingDisasterVictims

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

Samuel J. Palmisano

ThinkShipYouEarlyDisasterMiss

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

Gaylord Nelson

LiveEnvironmentCreateDisaster

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

Walter Ulbricht

GreatTogetherPastPeopleDisaster

Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

Naftali Bennett

WorldDisasterOutWithinBreakFew

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Ada Louise Huxtable

ImaginationDisasterMarbleWhere

I challenge anybody to claim that clean tech done right is a disaster.

Vinod Khosla

ChallengeDoneCleanRightDisaster

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

I AmWeddingEnoughLuckyDisaster

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

SuccessFailureFearRightDisaster

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

Roger Daltrey

AmericanDisasterEuropean

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

Ludwig von Mises

HistoryDisasterSourceBeenCourse

My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

Douglas Coupland

LifeMy LifeDisasterEventUnlikely

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

Aravind Adiga

ImmigrantNeverDisasterLivedWell

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

Sylvester Stallone

I AmPeopleMePlayDisasterExpect

'60 Minutes' was a disaster for me because it made everybody think that I was the house liberal of CBS, which is the part that I was playing. It was fun for a while.

Shana Alexander

FunMeThinkHouseDisasterPlaying

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