Quotes of: Natural-disaster Keyword

So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn’t?” He snorted. “You don’t just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it.

Impulse

There is never enough time for fun.

Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

Pat Roberts

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

Rebecca Solnit

Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.

Paul Stamets

We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the economics and indifference...the relief will be very political, in who gives how much (Bush offering 15 million, then 35 millio...

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

It was definitely a new way of life for people who had become so used to being entertained by televisions, computers and technology." -from Day After Disaster

Day After Disaster

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling u...

Marc Faber

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

Ernst Fischer

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

Billy Tauzin

It also strikes me that male-to-male bonding can create a gender role conflict, as it challenges the myth of full independence. Heroism is an exception. In fact, heroism has a long tradition as part of manhood. Bonds formed through natural disaster o...

Codependency & Men

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.

Titanic: Voices From the Disaster

If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster ...

Sheri Fink

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo

...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness...

Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.

The Pilot's Wife

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.

David Plouffe