Top 1200 Natural Disaster Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock. But the natural world is not so malleable. On the contrary, it will demand that you adapt to it - and if you don't, you die.

Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.

There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

What is a disaster for most is an opportunity for a few.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.

When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

Each disaster became a steppingstone for growth.

If my dancing is a disaster - it doesn't define me as a person.

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Unfettered free trade has led to a disaster.

When faced with disaster, learn to laugh faster.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change.

My spray-tan woman is amazing. She comes to my house at 10 o'clock the night before a shoot. The results are so brown, flawless, and natural. It's just weird because my natural skin color is very white, almost whitish yellow.

Afghanistan is an expensive disaster for America.

It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

No Child Left Behind was a disaster.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly 'radical' ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.

Any disaster is a learning process.

Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal mechanism: differential reproductive success of individuals.

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

If you accuse me of being on drugs because I'm very focused on what I do, because I'm very serious, because I'm very hungry, because I can squat 800 lbs, because I can bench 500 lbs, because I can press 315 behind my neck, and if these things don't fit under what you consider to be natural, then I don't want to be a natural. I don't want to be what you depict as a natural. I want to define myself for me.

The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

I think Aleppo is a disaster, humanitarian-wise.

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.

Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

No disaster is worse than being discontented.

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

I can't cook to save my life. I'm a disaster.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.

I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing.

America has the slowest growth and jobs are a disaster.

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

You know, Kinect... I'll be honest with you. It was a disaster.

No one ever understood disaster until it came.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.