Top Disaster Quotes
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
Joe Paterno
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
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.
Eugene Kennedy
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.
Warren Rudman
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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?
Elias Canetti 
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I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine II
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The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
Arianna Huffington
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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.
Jon Porter
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There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
Will Durst
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Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
Emile M. Cioran
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There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
Meg Greenfield
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