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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
— May Sarton
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
— Colin Wilson
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
— Peter C. Doherty
There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I asked what sort of 'trouble' we might expect. That he couldn't say; disasters always come out of the blue.
— Albert Camus
Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.
— Janet Burroway
Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.
— Shannon L. Alder
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
— Edward Abbey
His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.
— Margaret Atwood
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
— Euripides
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
— Harold Nicolson
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
— Claude Bissell
Not having ice cream," she proclaimed, "is the culmination of all disasters!
— Brandon Sanderson
We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.
— Marianne Williamson
The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.
— Michael Leunig
Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don't have to.
— James Hubbard
If you are good at in the art of finding consolation, it means that you have the best medicine after the disasters.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
— Sara Paretsky
Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.
— Pandora Poikilos
Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.
— Irving Kristol
The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.
— Timothy Holme
When disasters come at the same time, they compete with each other.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
I consider Christian theology to be one of the greatest disasters of the human race.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
— Coventry Patmore
There will always been the prurient rubbernecking aspect to disasters: people who just can't get enough gore.
— Peter Landesman
Yes, nature has two faces: The pretty one and the ugly one, the disasters! Love the first face and be prepared for the second one!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.
— Vernor Vinge
Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.
— Richard Bach
Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.
— Jan Egeland
Disasters have a way of making us stronger in the broken places.— James Lee Witt
The days of red carpet disasters are kind of over.
— Trinny Woodall
Be thankful for the disasters that warn you clearly before they come!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.
— Fran Lebowitz
In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.
— Barack Obama
For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.
— Julia McNair Wright
The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The challenge of creation reduces us to the inevitable. Our lives are full of tiny disasters.
— Floriano Martins
It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.
— Cat Stevens
I should have known by then that it's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass; it's the ones you don't expect at all.
— Karen Thompson Walker
Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.
— Mark Lawrence
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
— Eduardo Galeano
Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.
— William Shakespeare
The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters.
— Geraldo Rivera
Don't look so worried. Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters.
— Sabaa Tahir
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The pack of all disasters has moulded together and fallen on my neck." FRANCISCO PELSAERT
— Mike Dash
While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.
— Sylvia Mathews Burwell
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.
— Clayton Christensen
The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.
— Niki De St. Phalle
Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
— Criss Jami
One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.
— Zig Ziglar
Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
— Irwin Redlener
It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters.
— Andrew Mitchell
In life, the worst disasters come from passion.
— Euripides
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
When you've got the devil's own luck, you're immune from the usual run of disasters. Such people must be utilized.
— Osamu Dazai
Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.
— Delia Smith
We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.
— Svetlana Alexievich
The half-concealed disasters that constitute a life.
— Don DeLillo
I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience
— Walter De Maria
The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.
— Robert Breault
It's not the natural disasters you have to fear. It's the ones that are inside of you, waiting to happen.
— Polly Horvath
The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.
— Thomas Sowell
Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.
— Ambrose Bierce
The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew.
— Erika Johansen
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
— Stephen Leacock
The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
— Christopher Paolini
Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
— Irwin Redlener
