Disaster Quotes

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

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

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.

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

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.

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.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

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

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

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.

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?

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

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

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