Top 1200 Natural Disaster Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.

If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.

I love earth tones, jewel tones and everything that is natural. I also like natural materials like cottons, silks... I don't like synthetic. Even the wood we use has to be authentic.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.

Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?

Brexit is a disaster, Italy won't be real about its debt, and the European Union is in trouble.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

The first half of the 2014-15 season was a disaster for me in relation to my weight.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.

The Knesset is the parliament that passes the most laws in the world. It's a disaster for the business sector.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

What I want is natural gas to be a bridge to a cleaner energy future, not a dam against a cleaner energy future, not a dead end. To get this right, to get the most out of it, we not only have to make sure we exploit natural gas in a clean way - it's a challenge - but we also have to make sure that we are instilling and implementing all the incentives to win solar, nuclear energy efficiency that will make them continually competitive with natural gas in the future.

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

South Korea has very few natural resources. The country isn't stocked with oil, much natural gas, or even many minerals. What it does have is an enormous quantity of sheet masks, BB creams, essences, and face masks packaged to look like tomatoes.

In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.

One of the hallmarks of the American spirit is the desire to help each other when disaster strikes.

It was a disaster. I need to play with freedom, and Hodgson didn't let me cross the halfway line.

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

God, I used to have really skinny-crap eyebrows. They were such an ugly disaster.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.

Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Most people plan by disaster. They think of what can go wrong and then they master it.

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

2017 would be a disaster for Obamacare. That's the year it was meant to explode because Obama won't be here.

Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?

I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'