465 Quotes About Disaster
- Author Pandora Poikilos
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Procrastination is the foundation of all disasters.
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- Author Ezinne Orjiako
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But home is 6617 miles away; a burning building. A sinking ship. A dying thing.
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- Author Shirley Jackson
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Those crazy physicists that spend all day cooking themselves under an atomic reactor and all night writing stories for Weird World have done it. Spoiled my day completely. One of those idiots has hung the world up like a celluloid ball in an airstream.
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- Author Michael Grant
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And he thought of the two people who had held his job before him: Sam and Astrid. Both beaten into despair by trying to hold this group of kids together in the face of one disaster after another. Both of them now happy to let Edilio handle it.“No wonder,” Edilio muttered.“Stay inside unless absolutely necessary,” Edilio shouted, and not for the first or last time wished he was still just Sam’s faithful sidekick.
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- Author Gore Vidal
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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
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- Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
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I had the vertiginous feeling one gets standing at the precipice of an unresolved plan, for I had brought Bon and myself to the brink of disaster without knowing how to save us. But was not this how all plans developed, unknown to their maker until he wove for himself a parachute, or else melted into air?
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- Author Chaim Potok
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When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble.
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- Author Dean Koontz
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No matter what happens, disaster piled on calamity, no matter what, everything will be okay in the long run.
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- Author Virginia Woolf
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What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included.
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