top of page
.png){kind=small}
"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Disaster quotes
"It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover."
"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."
"Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen."
"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."
"The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war."
"The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters."
"Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist."
"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead."
Explore more quotes by Rebecca West
"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"
bottom of page