Disaster Quotes

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.

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 combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out.

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

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.

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

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

You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

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

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.