Disaster Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception.

Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

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

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.