Top 1200 Natural Disaster Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

At school I was a disaster academically but being involved in drama helped me to find another pathway into things.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.

No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

"Ju" means being natural or in other words the way which is natural and in accords with the truth of the universe and the one that human beings have to follow. Also, "Ju" may mean anything reasonable, just and honorable, accordingly noble: namely the realization of Truth , Good and Beauty.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging to the Deity that is purely philosophical. The birth of the Saviour was as natural as are the births of our children; it was the result of natural action. He partook of flesh and blood - was begotten of his Father, as we were of our fathers.

While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Through Duke Energy's strong balance sheet and electric generation expertise, and Piedmont's understanding of natural gas markets and proficient operations, the combined company will be well-positioned for a future that may require additional natural gas infrastructure and services to meet the needs of our customers.

In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there.

It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

Dominant narrative is so overwhelming in politics. The smallest gaffe when the momentum is against you is a disaster. But when it is with you, everyone just ignores it.

When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

The rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria has been a disaster for the public image of Islam - and a boon for the Islamophobia industry.

One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?

I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.

In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection -quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection tautology.

People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance." And the answer is that natural selection is the very opposite of sheer chance. Natural selection is a non-random process.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

The pooling operation used in convolutional neural networks is a big mistake, and the fact that it works so well is a disaster.

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

So when you make a disaster movie that is trying to say something about our world, you reach for images that haunt you.

This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.

I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Crossroads, what a disaster. Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted and no one is held responsible....people ought to be asking, 'What are you in business for?'

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

To be honest, my first film Akhil' was a disaster and to come out of the negativity it brought, it took a lot of time.

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

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.

...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North American natural gas extraction rates already in decline. These events will have enormous implications for America's petroleum-dependent food system

I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

Being willing to risk it all for any given climb will inevitably end at some point in disaster.

I think that if Britain does decide to leave the E.U., that would be a disaster for the technology sector here and probably also for the broader economy.

Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.

I was never good at school, couldn't get a job. I was a disaster when I tried to do things the way the world wanted me to.

Life, unfortunately, doesn?t seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.

When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.

There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture.

Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

There is just no substitute for seeing a disaster area firsthand and getting the chance to speak in person to victims and responders.

We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.