Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Angelina Jolie

There's another disaster that could happen very soon.

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

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

This is such a huge disaster we're not going to be able to prevent all of this.

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.

It's not if a disaster will come, but when.

Nancy Pelosi

There were two disasters last week: first, the natural disaster, and second, the man-made disaster, the disaster made by mistakes made by FEMA,

Laura Bush

This is what happens when there is a natural disaster of this scope,

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.

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

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.

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

You have to remember, with a disaster like this, even the line can be a disaster.

Michael Brown

This was a catastrophic disaster, and in very disaster, there are mistakes, and it's not always smooth and pretty.