Top 1200 Natural Disaster Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

If we lose the BBC it would be a disaster for the entire country. I genuinely believe that.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that, and cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifest violation of justice.

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone.

I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.

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

You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self.

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

I challenge anybody to claim that clean tech done right is a disaster.

I went blonde which killed my hair. It was a disaster. I think it was neat to do it for a bit.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

I was joking with my agent that I'm going to get typecast for a water-disaster actor.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.

David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.

Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.

There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.

It's a very competitive world out there. The competitive spirit is fine within limits. But it shouldn't drown the sheer joy of the game being played. It's natural to want to win. But to me, it's not natural to want others to fail.

Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel. It's very natural - and I wouldn't want to say easy - but natural and comfortable to write about, and there's so many different forms of it, millions of layers - you could write forever about it.

Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.

We must act now to save Americans from the imploding Obamacare disaster.

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

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

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

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

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

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.

I had three abortions because I was certain that it would be a disaster for my work.

He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.

The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

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

Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a negative process, and therefore does not lead to knowledge. Both are wrong for the same reasons. They ignore the generation of diversity and new ideas upon which natural selection and skepticism acts. Weeding out the unfit is critical to both - natural selection allows evolution to proceed, and skepticism allows science to advance.

What the canons of beauty transmit is an idea of taking care of yourself. Eating well, living healthily, doing sports. It's a way to highlight the natural beauty in each of us. The natural body that all of us are born with.

We are importing Russian natural gas which is not produced in an environmentally conscious manner. If the states that are blocking the pipelines were truly concerned about the environment, they would look to where the natural gas would be coming from.

Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go.

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

It seems after the disaster many good things and blessings happen,.

Unimaginable riches for the few, disaster for the many - that's the new American way.

I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and narrow path of discipleship. The natural man doesn't automatically think of doing good. It isn't natural. How many people worry about the car behind them or the person below them? The natural man just doesn't do it. For us, however, these promptings enlarge our awareness of other people's needs and then prod us to act accordingly.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.