Disaster Quotes

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

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

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.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

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.

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

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.

The pursuit of approval usually ends in 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.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

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.

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.

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.