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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

Don't grieve for desires that are not fulfilled. Sometimes the things that don't happen keep disasters from happening too — Shashi

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

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary. — Max Lucado

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

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny. — Simon Rich

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them. — Sara Paretsky

The U.S. government spends billions of dollars on disasters after they happen, but it pinches pennies when it comes to preparing for them. — Deborah Blum

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

Disasters, therefore, and losses, and wrongs, have only the same power over virtue that a cloud has over the sun. — Seneca.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there's too much corruption in the world — Aristotle.

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

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. — James Tobin

Human beings are miserable disasters. They make mistakes. Do the wrong things. — Pam Godwin

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. — Ted Danson

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

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il. — John Bolton

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

Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time. — Pawan Mishra

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

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter. — Thucydides

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

We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters. — Thomas Szasz

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

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales. — Evelyn Waugh

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

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder. — Henry IV

Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters. — Ambrose Bierce

Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia. — K.P. Yohannan

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. — Jeff Goodell

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

There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. — Ross Macdonald