Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's not a disaster because you know this sector (pharmaceuticals) is very volatile. It's not a trend.

That's not homes or businesses, just roads, bridges, infrastructure. They are going out (today) with federal disaster officials to start looking around.

That's just a disaster as far as I'm concerned.

Even if you didn't have the hurricane and a major disaster in the south, ... we probably would be looking at a moderate increase.

Every disaster is different. The 2004 hurricane season was extremely helpful in homing in on where we could tighten things up.

Sean Burke

It's the toughest stretch I've been involved with in all the years I've played. It's just a disaster right now.

Carson Palmer

It's one of those things you can't go into full-bore, ... You need to see what you're comfortable with and test it and move on from there step by step. It can be a disaster if you don't do it right. If you try to do too much, guys are confused. We've taken it really slow and tried to improve on it.

It's the new pork. Disaster declarations are a way you can pump federally mandated monies into communities without going through Congress.

It's more likely that a president will be there -- wherever there is -- and will speak more promptly after a disaster to a very large audience,

George Saunders

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.

Gore Vidal

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

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,

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.

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.

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.