Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.
My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.
We've seen what happened in Libya, what a disaster that's been driven by Hillary Clinton, and the disaster in Syria and almost disaster in Egypt. What a close call that's been. We're not out of the woods yet with Egypt.
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.
If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.
Nature was taking back what had once been hers.
Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.
What is a disaster for most is an opportunity for a few.
This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
People's first homes are always disasters. It's like the first time you have sex. It's never as good as later on. It always gets better.
In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.
What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster,. . God forbid this happens in San Francisco.
There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.
When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come. . . the mystery is created in (their) minds, and by waiting for disaster, it is from their very minds that it occurs.
You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.
When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.
No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.
My diary is a disaster. . . I can't spell at all. . . I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.