“In times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father.” SelfFatherTroubleSorrowDisasterFathers DayTimes Of Trouble Author:William C. Richardson
“Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.” TwoWantedFiveSawsTroubleFeetCarEightWideDisasterBridgesDepartmentInchesBrushesSandwichesTransportationPennsylvaniaSausageContractorPiers Author:Steve Kroft
“The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.” IfsMenSelfReasonNationsCausesInterestChurchTroubleCapacityClaimsSpeciesDuesDrivenContraryDisasterDevotionConclusionUrgesExcessAggressionTribesPreservationSelf InterestSelf PreservationDetrimentalCredo Author:Arthur Koestler
“The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it'd be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble.” IfsThinkingWritingCausesTroubleBedSafeHonestlyDisasterThings To DoDiaries Author:Ellie Goulding
“This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.” IfsThinkingBelieveHappensUnited StatesTroubleTerribleDisaster Book:The Bean Trees: A Novel Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel
“Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.” ChildrenTroubleTreeLandUnderstoodDisasterApplesApple Trees Author:Janet Burroway
“If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to disaster. Take Britain. The two problems which have caused the greatest trouble since the war ended have been transportation and coal. The government seized both industries when the war broke out. It got them into such a hopeless mess that it does not know how to turn [In] coal; the government now realizes, it took hold of the tail of a wild animal and is afraid to let go.” IfsKnowsWorldDoeHas BeensTwoWarProblemGovernmentTurnsRealizingAnimalKnow HowTroubleDangerIndustryLetting GoDisasterMessBrokeWar Of The WorldsBritainHopelessWorld War IOwnershipTailsCoalTransportationWild Animal Author:B. C. Forbes
“The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.” TroubleTruth IsDisaster Book:The Complete Works of L.E. Landon Source: The Complete Works of L.E. Landon
“Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.” PeopleChildrenBodyParentTroubleHavensAddictionFinancialBlowDivorceDisasterFortyBankruptcyThis Society Author:Marianne Williamson