Quotes with disaster

  • I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
  • It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
  • The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
  • Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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  • Quentin Crisp Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
    Manners from Heaven: A Divine Guide to Good Behaviour (1984) ch. 7
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Andrew William Mellon A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • Billy Evans Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • James S. Brady Disaster these days is not official until it is recorded on the evening news.
    James S. Brady
    US Presidential Press Secretary (1940 - 2014)
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  • Benjamin Graham Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Mario Puzo Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster.
    The Godfather
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Bruce Jackson 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.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Camille Paglia For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex. This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bob Ney Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • John D. Rockefeller I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Henry Miller 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.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bernie Sanders I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Norman Augustine If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
    Norman Augustine
    American aerospace businessman (1935 - )
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  • Pat Buchanan If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Warren Buffett If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Joan Didion In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.
    The White Album (1979) 89
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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