Quotation Explorer - 'Disasters'

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. - Sarah Vowell
If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country! - 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
...I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters,... - Daniel Defoe
For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians. - Markham Shaw Pyle
The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it. - Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct -- if God works in mysterious ways, that way is mysteriously genocidal. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
For what it's worth, I think perfect love stories have perfect disasters hidden somewhere. If a genuine relationship comes out of two people screwing before they saw the potential of the 'relationship'? Its perfect, beautiful, a work of art in fact.. Normal is overrated. - Nike Thaddeus
The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity! - Mehmet Murat ildan
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world - Aristotle
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. - Quentin Crisp
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.
Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the courage of their convictions. - Coventry Patmore
You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World. - Emery Allen
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