Famous Quotes & Sayings

The response is stronger than expected, given the number of disasters in the world happening simultaneously.

Preparedness is 90 percent of a disaster. The more prepared you are, the more likely that your response is going to be smoother and less costly and save more lives.

Practice makes perfect. A much better start for me. Last year was a disaster.

Lois Lowry

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.

Communications is always where you fail in any disaster. It's something we need to really focus on.

Disasters come at us when we least expect it, and we are supposed to be prepared,

Kofi Annan

could lead to a large-scale humanitarian disaster, with the approaching winter.

W. S. Gilbert

Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.

This could be the greatest natural disaster in our country's history. We need a response commensurate with that.

Jacques Chirac

This dreadful disaster plunges all of France into mourning,

This disaster was one of the most preventable disasters that we've seen in American history.

This disaster is unleashing the type of energy-supply shock that we had viewed as the economy's greatest vulnerability.

Michael Brown

This disaster did not end the day Katrina made landfall,

This flood is not a disaster. It is an ecological windfall.

Mitch Landrieu

This is a celebration like no other in history, as it follows four months after being struck by the worst natural disaster in our nation's history.

Bob Gibson

This is a disaster. This is an industry-wide problem. Pricing is low and they're having to keep their prices down to compete.

This is a disaster of such scope and such significance that it is not going to go away in weeks or even months.

This is a disaster of enormous scale and we have to understand that,

They're using this disaster to roll back public health protection.

They took a shortcut. They didn't want to let the system take its course. They went on this trip and disaster occurred.

A lot of the time what you see (after a disaster like this) is an increase of what was already there before.

You're talking about an ecological disaster of unprecedented proportion,

Quentin Crisp

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster

Charles Scott

You really don't feel disasters like these until it hits home.

Mark Zandi

This is a significant economic event. This is much more substantial than any other natural disaster that the U.S. has experienced.

Christine Whitman

This is far and away the worst natural disaster I've ever seen. Many people are just not going to be able to get into their houses for months.

Thad Cochran

This is going to be the most expensive natural disaster that's hit the United States in history. It's really quite phenomenal.

This is going to be one of the, if not the, most costly natural disaster in the United states.

They give them money for gas masks but not for how are you going to mitigate for a natural disaster.

It's just a terrible thing that they're going to come back from 18 months of sacrifice where they have risked their lives and have a disaster of this nature (and) don't have a home to come back to,

It's a short-term, cost-cutting strategy and it will be a disaster for the airline.

It's a technical, structural disaster. This is long overdue.

It was the miracle day and the disaster day also because there were a lot of miracle stories to be told.