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Disaster Quotes
"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."
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"So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped."
50
"If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves."
45
"There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad."
43
"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."
42
"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."
41
"Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out."
40
"Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster."
39
"Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance."
39
"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."
38
"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."
38
"Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills."
38
"The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner."
38
"Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse."
37
"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."
36
"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."
36
"The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters."
35
"If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss."
35
"Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster."
35
"Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster."
35
"The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war."
33
"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images."
33
"There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster."
32
"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."
31
"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."
31
"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
26
"Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!"
26
"That feeling. That's the real difference in a life. People who live on solid ground, underneath safe skies, know nothing of this; they are like the English POWs in Dresden who continued to pour tea and dress for dinner, even as the alarms went off, even as the city became a towering ball of fire. Born of a green and pleasant land, a temperate land, the English have a basic inability to conceive of disaster, even when it is man-made."
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