298 Disaster Quotes for You to Enjoy

It's no accident that Julia Child appeared on public television - or educational television, as it used to be called. On a commercial network, a program that actually inspired viewers to get off the couch and spend an hour cooking a meal would be a commercial disaster, for it would mean they were turning off the television to do something else. Michael Pollan

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A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don't always work in the immediate vicinity of a disaster, so it's important to have an out-of-town contact with whom the entire family can check in. Mike Crapo

I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster. Mike Rogers

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage. Molly Harper

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Any idea of a united India could never have worked, and in my judgment, it would have led us to terrific disaster. Maybe that view is correct; maybe it is not - that remains to be seen. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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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

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After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster. Nicholas Hoult

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We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off. Nicholas Kristof

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All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are enormous. Noreena Hertz

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Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster. Norm Dicks

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

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People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse. Paolo Bacigalupi

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It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster. Paul Di Filippo

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I think for the disaster to work and the drama to work, you really need to feel like you're really in that world. Paul W. S. Anderson

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The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. Paul Watson

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In 2006, I started making a film called 'Restraint of Beasts.' While I was making it, I had a personal disaster. My wife fell ill, so we stopped shooting halfway through. And then sadly, my wife died. Pawel Pawlikowski

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One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally. Penn Jillette

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BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused. Peter Welch

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. Prince Charles

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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men. Rafael Nadal

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