“ It's very difficult to ignore caring disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. ”
- Cat Stevens- Copy
- 3K
“ Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
- 468
“ Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. ”
- William Tecumseh Sherman- Copy
- 4K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner. ”
- Joe Paterno- Copy
- 3.3K
“ To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster. ”
- Stirling Moss- Copy
- 835
“ Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well. ”
- Junichiro Koizumi- Copy
- 1.9K
“ At last, President Bush has recognized what I have been saying for more than a week the federal response to this disaster must be managed by a capable leader. ”
- Nancy Pelosi- Copy
- 388
“ President Bush 's next FEMA director must be a qualified emergency response professional with the leadership experience to manage this disaster and future emergencies. ”
- Nancy Pelosi- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ”
- Emanuel Swedenborg- Copy
- 714
“ We're sure not going to discourage people from helping. But we can't just send untrained people into a disaster zone. ”
- John Hughes- Copy
- 940
“ Texas has been providing immediate and life-saving services to thousands of its neighbors in the wake of this disaster, and our nation is grateful. ”
- Mike Leavitt- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The disaster declaration is very important to get that started so we don't get caught up in any bureaucratic malaise. ”
- Rick Perry- Copy
- 488
“ The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. ”
- Benjamin Mays- Copy
- 2.7K
“ This is a huge, huge disaster,... It is a race against time to save the lives of these people. ”
- Kofi Annan- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The third quarter was a disaster. We weren't able to counter their attack. They made big shots and we weren't able to make any shots. We knew they would heat up but we didn't counter it. ”
- LeBron James- Copy
- 2.3K
“ While the needs of 'my kids' are with us all year round, Hurricane Katrina is a national disaster on a scale that's difficult to comprehend. ”
- Jerry Lewis- Copy
- 3.6K
“ My perspective on the second Bush Administration is, that for all of his big talk, it's going to be a failure. He is not going to get out of Iraq with clear-cut victory or clear-cut reconstruction, during his second term. It's going to take longer, if at all… ”
- Arthur Hertzberg- Copy
- 2.1K
“ If we can be more proactive on disasters — the way we fund them, the way we plan for them — then we can have better preparedness, we can have more efficient responses, and the assistance is more effective in the end. ”
- Peter Walker- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. ”
- Harold Nicolson- Copy
- 2.7K
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