Disaster Quotes

We are the authors of our own disasters

Latin Proverb

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Ada Louise Huxtable

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

Kurt Masur

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Josiah Strong

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Orlando Bloom

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

Susan George

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

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

George Meredith

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Quentin Crisp

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Robert Culp

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Orlando Bloom

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

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Pierre Corneille

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Natalia Ginzburg

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

Martha Beck

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Simon Wiesenthal

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

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe

Germaine Greer

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