465 Quotes About Disaster

  • Author Sarah-Kate Lynch
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    This is the thing no one prepares you for where disaster are concerned. There is no ominous black cloud, no spooky chill, no neon sign that flashes: Stop! Please! Go back to bed! There's something really really dreadful waiting to happen around the corner! I beg of you, do not continue!

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  • Author Sarah Beth Durst
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    Champion Ven knelt in the ruins of the village. Sifting through the rubble, he lifted out a broken doll, its pink dress streaked with dirt and its pottery face cracked.There was always a broken doll.Why did there always have to be a damn doll?

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  • Author Peter May
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    In this modern age of air travel, we really live in a global village. and we have created ´the perfect Inkubators for breeding and passing on infection, in the buses and planes and underground trains we travel on. we were a human disaster waiting to happen.

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  • Author Richard Lloyd Parry
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    Most of the parents who came to the school were full-time mothers and housewives; most of the villagers offering their opinions were retired, elderly and male. It was another enactment of the ancient dialogue, its lines written centuries ago, between the entreating voices of women, and the oblivious, overbearing dismissiveness of old men.

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  • Author Lawrence Beesley
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    Are we never to educate ourselves to foresee such dangers and to prevent them before they happen? All the evidence of history shows that laws unknown and unsuspected are being discovered day by day: as this knowledge accumulates for the use of man, is it not certain that the ability to see and destroy beforehand the threat of danger will be one of the privileges the whole world will utilise?

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