Famous Quotes & Sayings

We know a lot of people lost their glasses in the disaster. And we just want to be here to help out.

We often see opportunistic pitches like this following disasters.

With a combination of last week's rains and (yesterday's rain), we could end up with a sizable disaster situation. It might not be a lot of major damage, but if it is spread out over the entire island, it could be significant.

Felipe Alou

We were right. But it turned out to be a disaster.

We were very well-prepared, but it's not going to be a breeze. This is a very large, large disaster, and it's going to require a lot of teamwork and patience.

Jim Furyk

You can make a lot of birdies, but there are a lot of disasters waiting to happen.

We've had such trouble for the last two years. I'm sort of waiting to see what sort of disaster will happen this year,

We're sure not going to discourage people from helping. But we can't just send untrained people into a disaster zone.

Ellen Galinsky

The reason I think it's gaining momentum is because of natural-disaster preparedness.

Too much technology and too much privacy, that's just a disaster waiting to happen.

Haley Barbour

We got hit by the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

We are seeing the handing over of a multiple-use valley to the energy industry. This is a disaster in the making.

This survey is evidence that last year's natural disasters impacted these freshmen in a significant way.

When disasters strike as a result of unsafe medical devices, nobody should be surprised. This is just the latest example.

Eric Williams

We're treating the trailer park as a mass disaster area.

T. J. Miller

I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.

Michael Brown

People are getting the help they need, ... This is an ongoing disaster. This disaster didn't just end when Katrina left.

People are being generous and I want them to but every penny that comes in here marked disaster goes to disaster. We don't keep anything locally for overhead. It all goes to disaster.

Jon Corzine

Over the past few weeks, we have all seen what happens when we fail to take the necessary steps before disaster strikes.

Rebecca Solnit

Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility.

Jason Chaffetz

Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.

Bill Vaughan

What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

David Burnett

I saw Pensacola after Ivan and it was nothing like this, ... This is a disaster, the big one.

Such a vast power in a single hand is a disaster for the diversity of opinion in Germany.

Michael Chertoff

State and local authorities have the principal, first-line-of-response obligation, with respect to a disaster of this kind, ... Obviously, the law recognizes they can't do it themselves.

Elizabeth Bowen

It could've been a disaster for people who couldn't see it on TV, so to speak. The fact that it was incorrect on TV alarmed me.

Steve Jones

It is essential that older people are treated as a group with special and particular needs in these emergency situations as they usually get forgotten when disaster strikes.

Anthony Collins

Man, it's a disaster down there, ... Everything you're hearing about it is pretty much how it is.

Brad Sherman

People who lived through the Northridge earthquake have a special sympathy for victims of another one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history,

Pastors and spouses and staff members were so involved in ministry to people after disasters that nobody was ministering to them. They were exhausted.

Thomas Graham

We were in a 16-acre disaster zone that went for 10 or 12 blocks,

Rick Dickson

We're still absorbing everything that did happen. The worst national disaster in our country's history, and you're part of it.

Jeff Flake

Three hundred thousand manufactured homes? People are screaming about that, ... I tell you, FEMA is a disaster.