Top 1200 Natural Disaster Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.

Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Taxing less and spending more.. it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster.

My mom wasn't a good cook. No, that was an understatement. She was really horrible. And in a Chinese family, that's a disaster.

It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters.

To me, even what the glossies would consider a fashion disaster are still self expression.

Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it's just who you are. You're embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don't get to see that.

Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

I see someone like John Williams, the classical player, and the amount of discipline and the natural ability that man has is so frightening. That requires so much natural talent. And I think my talent came from just practising, and I feel a bit intimidated when I see players that good.

Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.

Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.

A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.

Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.

Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.

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

We talk a lot about our abundant natural resources, but we need to talk more about the most precious natural resource God has entrusted to us - our children.

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

Our body is part of nature. Our creations, they're not natural. We build things that aren't natural, but our bodies, they're part of that system.

Weather systems are natural heat engines, and like all other heat engines, both natural and artificial, they are driven not by temperature per se, but by differences in temperature between one location and another.

I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.

Together we all live every moment On the very brink; The razor’s edge Of ecstasy or disaster.

Despite the economic disaster that is Russia, there are still air shows taking place in the country.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

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

I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to words to sentences to paragraphs. The whole of one level becomes part of the whole of the next. In other words, natural hierarchies are composed of holons.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

As a self-proclaimed cooking disaster, I try to makes things that I think I can easily master.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

I always say that there are manufactured coaches and natural coaches. I am one of the natural ones. I do not have to sit there and watch videos for hours. I look at what I have to watch, and in a quarter of an hour, I understand what I can understand.

I still have the newspapers of my first match at Barcelona. It was a disaster. We lost 2-0 and everybody was questioning my arrival.

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

I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose - I think everyone should carry it.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

I'm human, we all are - all doctors are - and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you'd get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important.

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.