Famous Quotes & Sayings

Today's disaster was a reason for the market to express its short-term fears.

We have an opportunity right now right after disasters while governments are more receptive to influence policy from the start.

Jason Giambi

We could have easily had the momentum swing and gotten swept. We could have turned this into a disaster.

Orlando Bloom

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Tom DeLay

We will raise the Katrina disaster as the top priority for the House, but at the same time we have other work that we will be working on,

Robert Johnson

Usually, they're sent overseas when there is a disaster,

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

We don't want to promote 'serial rebuilding,' ... The industry does weigh in in post-disaster debates.

We couldn't run the football and that's a recipe for disaster for this football team. We need to run the football effectively and that helps to get Steve Smith in the game. It's like if we can't do one, we can't really do the other, unfortunately.

We hate to see the devastation and disaster some of the people experienced, but overall the storm was a big welcome. We needed it for all of our ranges and pastures and field crops.

We haven't removed them because in the event of a major disaster, they still work.

Johnny Vaughan

You just can't imagine the scale of this disaster or this happening to your own.

Kofi Annan

The American people who have always been the most generous in responding to disasters in other parts of the world, have now themselves suffered a grievous blow,

That was a real disaster. None of the streets were paved back then and many people lived in tents, so you can imagine everything was a real mess. If we'd had a drought that year, we'd still be the state capital.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.

We haven't even started to think about this issue. But natural disasters shape leaders.

Lisa Ray

Those are two of the benchmarks we have to meet, ... It has to a pretty big disaster.

We are in the middle of an emergency. If we receive no new donations now, it is extremely likely that Kenya will be hit by a humanitarian disaster in the months to come.

Renters insurance is very valuable. And for not very much money, it can save you from disaster.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

There have been a lot of students that have become interested in helping out due to the disaster.

The disaster is looming large. We have thousands and thousands of very vulnerable people.

The markets have forgotten two lessons from prior natural disasters.

Emile M. Cioran

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

a recipe for disaster -- the same kind of disaster that occurred on 9/11.

Jalal Talabani

A premature withdrawal would be a disaster for the Iraqi people and a victory for terrorism,

People regard the monsoon season as a natural disaster and there have always been negative conceptions that the monsoon season isnt a good time to visit Terengganu,

No state can truly be ready for a disaster of the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina.

A disaster of this magnitude ... has never happened on this scale in U.S. history.

Jim Nelson

A disaster is whatever will drive you out of business.

Bryan Robson

A draw wouldn't be a disaster for us but no way would I ever send my team out to draw a game.

The one thing about this disaster is there are going to be a lot of total losses. People with standard policies will be getting only what's in the policy.

After all, Post-Its can be misplaced, thrown away and lost in a disaster. Your Post-It notes don't follow you around as you move from home, to work and to the road.