Disaster Quotes

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Jim Wallis

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Ada Louise Huxtable

He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light

Arabian Proverb

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

Chris Morris

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

Leon Jouhaux

Calamity is the test of integrity

Samuel Richardson

Moral and spiritual decay have brought about the demise of more great nations (empires) than any invading enemy force, plague, famine and nature disasters combined

Joseph P. Martino

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped

Samuel Johnson

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Catherine the Great

Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man.

Frederick Edwin Smith

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Susan Sontag

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

Emile M. Cioran

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

John Kasich

If we don't talk about this epidemic we are going to die.

Moran Margaret Cho