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- Nov 07, 2020
Disaster Quotes
Most Famous Disaster Quotes of All Time!
Modern civilization can feel fragile, balanced precariously against threats like terrorism, disease, and natural catastrophe on a global scale. When disaster strikes at massive scale, the earliest hours afterward often determine everything that follows, a theme in our Crisis quotes.
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- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
- End
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I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Y2K is showing everyone what technical people have been dealing with for years: the complex, muddled, bug-bitten systems we all depend on, and their nasty tendency toward the occasional disaster.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
- Fans
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The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't usually feel threatened by the militias. Most members are just indulging their fantasies of being warriors without having to sign up for the Army. They want to be heroes and save their neighbors from disaster.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dominant narrative is so overwhelming in politics. The smallest gaffe when the momentum is against you is a disaster. But when it is with you, everyone just ignores it.
- Life Is A
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.
- Good Friday
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a past attorney general I consider a WTO Brexit to be a disaster for us as, leaving aside the economic damage it will cause, it would trash our reputation for observing our international obligations - as it must lead to our breaching the Good Friday Agreement with Ireland on the Irish border.
Local governments are sometimes singled out as the one part of a system truly equipped to respond when catastrophe hits close to home. Post-war eras have shown how quality can slip when there's no competition pushing improvement. Read more in our Disasters, Disastrous, and Emergency quotes.