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“I would be a disaster as a prime minister.”

Motivational Would Be Disaster Ministers Prime Prime Minister

“Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth cannot be acquired from others by might, for wealth thus taken will impoverish him who takes anything which is not given. Nor can power be thus acquired, for the weakness of the despoiled will prevail against the might of the despoiler.”

Men World Might Law Given Wealth Business Taken Ignorance Weakness Excuse Disaster Ignorance Of The Law

Author:Walter Russell

“I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.”

People Lying Breathe Disaster Public Life Kissinger Henry Kissinger

Author:Seymour Hersh

“When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.”

Knows Stories Faces Disaster Soup Shipwreck

Author:O. Henry

“In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.”

World Mind Whole Together Millions Saws Dying Congress Disaster Whole World Engines Vehicle Apocalypse Automobile Terminal Simultaneous

Book:Crash: The Collector’s Edition

Source: Crash: The Collector’s Edition

“Some people dote on contemplating disasters.”

People Disaster Contemplating Apocalypse

Book:The Difference Engine

Source: The Difference Engine

“Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.”

Ifs Design Garden Sake Patterns Disaster Tendencies Designer Frustration Owners

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.”

Order Responsibility Failure Disaster Enterprise Impressive Incompetent

Author:George Chapman

“As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually 'natural' at all. ... Human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming. Global warming is causing the oceans to warm. Warm oceans are steroids for storms.”

Want Humans Country Might Natural Activity Ocean Climate Change Warm Storm Disaster Burning Fuel Global Warming Considering Fossils Fossil Fuel Human Activity Natural Disaster Steroid

Author:Michael Moore

“If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.”

Ifs Wells Might Film Share Disaster

Author:Salman Khan

“It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born. He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will kill a person who does not want to die.”

Want Persons Doe Self Body Desire Dies Individual Born Natural Understood Gun Illness Disaster Mechanism Bullets Murderer Epidemics Wanting To Die Natural Disaster Personification

Author:Seth

“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.”

Needs Natural Disaster Selfless Volunteer Wrath Imperatives Liability Natural Disaster

Author:Jon Porter

“There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.”

Social Poverty Disaster Indigenous Quick Fixes

Author:Malcolm Fraser

“Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.”

Done Hands Paid Disaster Wicked Woe

Author:Isaiah

“What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?”

Helping Running Riches Disaster Afar Reckoning

Author:Isaiah

“The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.”

Has Beens War States Choices President Leadership Decision United United States Policy Cost Iraq Disaster Occupation Civilians President Bush Strategic Incompetent

Author:John Olver

“Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.”

Source: Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars

“To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.”

Knows Stills Inspiring Grace Conscious Shadow Tragedy Strikes Disaster Uncertainty Acknowledge

Author:Peter Abrahams

“The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the equation is that riskier borrowers pay higher interest rates. Ultimate safety - a strongbox full of currency - would avail the banker nothing. Maximum risk - a portfolio of loans to prospective bankrupts at usurious interest rates - would invite disaster. A good banker safely and profitably treads the middle ground.”

“We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.”

Source: A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England

“A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.”

May Communication Disaster Misunderstood

Book:Lanterns & Lances

Source: Lanterns & Lances

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

Ifs Economy Disaster

Author:Susan George

“It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'”

Believe Hard President Speech Disaster Recovery Farms Agriculture New Orleans Hard To Believe

Author:Jim Hightower

“Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need, .. The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts.”

World Needs May Community Effort Support Communication Victim Foundation International Communicate Disaster Agency Relief Fund Assistance International Community Time Of Need

Author:Ted Turner

“We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.”

Body Loss Issues Huge Drug Weight Disaster Appeals Combination Recipes Body Image Weight Loss

Author:Robert Hughes

“I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate and how they deal with disaster because they're worldly enough to have a bit of irony and wryness about their own circumstances. So, I think the humour comes out of that.”

Thinking Enough Character Bits Deals Humour Circumstances Disaster Irony Worldly Woven Gags

Author:Colin Firth

“In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.”

Firsts Humans Art Ends Would Be Half Century Civilization Disaster Scales Holocaust 20th Century Unimaginable

Author:Ian Mcewan

“I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.”

Feels Vision Disaster Very Strong Visions Of The Future

Author:Avi Lewis

“I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university, but I had a series of absolute career disasters and found myself making television programs about the nature of religion and about Christian history and started to discover about other religious traditions, and that was an absolute eye-opener for me.”

Eye Christian Found Literature Religious Careers Television Program Tradition Absolutes Aim Series University Disaster Professors Historian English Literature Religious Traditions

Author:Karen Armstrong

“If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.”

Ifs Want Children Helping Dies Natural Deals Grief Happened Terrible Our Children Rage Disaster Witness Your Children Explanation Find Me Natural Disaster Turbulence Dismay

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.”

Trying Has Beens Disaster Linux

Author:Linus Torvalds

“When faced with disaster, learn to laugh faster.”

Laughing Disaster Faster

Author:Robert G. Allen

“The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.”

Needs Looks Care Lying Found Justice Poor Security Court Misery Take Care Disaster Supreme Ignorant Appeals Indifference Treatment Republic Supreme Court Helplessness

Author:Charles Evans Hughes

“My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato. But it was a huge disaster because the tomato didn't taste good. And then my dad started his own genetics company and I began doing that with him. He and I ran a genetics company for 10 years. And so I sold seeds to Florida.”

Years Company Huge Dad Taste Scientist My Dad Seeds Disaster Chiefs Ran Florida Genetics Tomatoes Monsanto

Author:Sanjay Rawal

“Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.”

People Ifs Persons Clear Policy Murder Disaster Punishment Innocent Capital Punishment Deterrent Death Row Innocent Person

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...”

People Humans Race Christianity Regard Islam Disaster Human Race Good People Judaism Monotheism

Author:Gore Vidal

“Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.”

Exciting Disaster

Author:Sam Shepard

“There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.”

Mother Land Jew Disaster Native Native Land

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.”

Real Vision Class Amount Perception Disaster Familiar Decline Ruling Apocalyptic

Author:Noam Chomsky

“When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.”

Stories Use Seems Comedy Television Office Hollywood And Love Competition Boxes Campaigns Disaster Love Story Makers Combat Degenerates Box Office

Author:Joan Crawford

“The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.”

Ifs Humans Values Bases Fundamentals Disaster Behaviour Dharma Human Values Emanate Human Behaviour

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert in either field. This is clearly a prescription for career disaster in today's world of ultra-high specialization.”

Knows World Today Natural Careers Fields Amount Scientist Function Mathematics Disaster Experts Natural World Prescriptions Today's World Specialization Ultras

Author:John L. Casti

“For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.”

Years May Has Beens Soul Conditions Personality Disaster Engineering Joyful Mills Bankruptcy

Book:The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

Source: The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

“Crossroads, what a disaster. Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted and no one is held responsible....people ought to be asking, 'What are you in business for?'”

People Millions Ought Asking Responsible Dollars Disaster Crossroads

Author:Patrick Caddell

“Solar, for example - which has typically been thought of as so expensive - is cheap when compared with, for example, the cost of cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf.”

Example Cost Nuclear Disaster Expensive Cleaning Cleaning Up Fukushima

Author:Chris Paine

“Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when it's going to hit. I don't have the answer to that either. I'm scared as hell.”

Thinking Knows Answers Hell Civilization Scientist Scared Disaster

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.”

People Want Firsts Helping Would Be Achieve Scientist Determine Disaster Secure

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“Well, there isn't any one profile of a survivor, but there are profiles. Depending on the disaster you have certain advantages and disadvantages just based on who you are. Women are more likely to survive hurricanes. In hurricanes the deaths come from floods and people driving through high water. That's much more likely to be a man who dies that way.”

People Men Way Wells Certain Dies Water Advantage Who You Are Driving Disaster Survivor Flood Be A Man Hurricanes Disadvantages Profile Advantages And Disadvantages

Author:Amanda Ripley

“You could reduce people's fears if you gave them some useful information before things went wrong. It's really important to create a sense of confidence in the public in their own abilities before a disaster because they're the only ones who are going to be there. No one's going to help you for at least 24 to 72 hours. So it would be good to know more about it.”

People Ifs Knows Important Helping Would Be Hours Ability Information Be Good Disaster Useful Information

Author:Amanda Ripley

“My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope for the book. I want to get people's attention and tell them very valuable and ultimately hopeful information, and you find out nothing is as scary as your imagination.”

People Knows Want Book Stuff Imagination Attention Information Anxiety Scary Valuable Disaster Hopeful

Author:Amanda Ripley

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