Disaster Quotes

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen.

In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.

All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

All is but illusion and disaster.