Top 400 Disaster Quotes

It doesn’t matter whether the challenge we face is large or small, whether it’s a statewide disaster or a crisis just on our own block – Nebraskans face it with courage, goodwill, and the unwavering conviction that we are part of one community of neighbors and friends.

Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of ‘The Hot Zone,’ and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.

When I was in school, I would use a roller brush to curl my hair inwards. Once, the brush got stuck in my hair and I had to chop off my hair with a knife. It was a total disaster!

Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that’s obviously a matter of perception, right? Let’s say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.

Because Japan has to import most of its energy, and because of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, the country has an almost obsessive interest in tackling energy issues.

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

I’m a wonderful disaster. So are you. We’re all a mess. We’re in this culture that says take this pill and you’ll be happy, go on this diet and you’ll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don’t think there’s any sympathy.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase performance.

Responding to a natural disaster is a complex problem.

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

I always tell myself every disaster is more material for my work and another anecdote to tell.

I was in a movie called ‘Flirting With Disaster’ with Ben Stiller. I realized that I am really not a good actor and not something I wanted to pursue.

Beard’s secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.

Technological progress has made clean energy a profitable investment, and growing popular pressure has forced politicians to respond to the threat of ecological disaster.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

I strongly believe that we would be amiss to cut ourselves off from Saudi Arabia without expending every effort to avert disaster.

It’s a film called ‘Kursk’, which is a true story about a submarine disaster. There was an accident on board a Russian submarine in the year 2000, and it stranded a large number of sailors. That’s next.

When I was young we had a collection for the Welsh disaster at Aberfan and we also had a school campaign for Biafra. It is a wake-up call for kids – a way of understanding that it’s not all ‘Blue Peter’ for everyone and that maybe they can help.

I don’t believe in open borders, I don’t think that would work. I think economically they’re a disaster. Therefore there’s nothing wrong with strong borders.

My way of doing things is that I am going to go for it, and if it’s going to be a disaster, I will pray that God will have a way of stopping it.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it’s obviously going to be a disaster.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

France has had socialist presidents on and off since the 1920s, and it remains a free country. Socialists have ruled in many South American countries without ushering in disaster.

There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

I plan to work with all my colleagues on education and labor issues and to ensure the security of our nation by providing agencies from FEMA’s disaster recovery efforts to the Coast Guard protecting our nation with the tools they need to be successful.

President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.

My life hasn’t always been a disaster, it’s just that when it has, it’s been a spectacular disaster.

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.

To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that ‘Seinfeld’ was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don’t know if that’s possible anymore, but I don’t try for that.

News reports following a natural disaster are almost always dominated by stories of looting and violence, but in many cases such stories turn out to be unfounded speculations based on rumour.

The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.

Brexit is a disaster, Italy won’t be real about its debt, and the European Union is in trouble.

If the militarily most powerful – and least threatened – states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

Whenever Congress undertakes large-scale reform, there are times when disaster appears certain – only to be averted at the last minute by the good sense of its sometimes unfairly maligned members.

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient’s eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon’s diagnosis.

In 2006, I started making a film called ‘Restraint of Beasts.’ While I was making it, I had a personal disaster. My wife fell ill, so we stopped shooting halfway through. And then sadly, my wife died.

Most children of the underclass are born out of wedlock; relationships are fleeting and unstable (which ensures that what is born into the underclass stays in the underclass). This is a world in which there are almost no worthwhile male role models, which is a disaster when boys turn to youths.

I think for most actors, because we sort of have to tell ourselves this, we always say, ‘Oh, it doesn’t mean anything to win an Oscar!’ It certainly isn’t a goal that you want to set yourself up for, because then you’re just setting yourself up for disaster. Because how many people actually win an Oscar?

When we go, as a first responder, when we go into a community that’s been hit with a hurricane, or some other natural disaster, the first thing we do is try to make sure the electric grid is back up and running in order to provide the drinking water for those communities.

Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.

I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a 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.

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

Libya is a huge disaster.

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.

No matter the natural disaster I’ve covered, whether it’s a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.