A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.
When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.
[Hillary Clinton] talks about solar panels. We invested in a solar company, our country. That was a disaster. They lost plenty of money on that one.
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
I left most of my stuff there in my apartment in the suburbs of Damascus. My apartment was completely destroyed by a bomb in 2013. I lost everything there. I cried not only for losing my apartment and my belongings, I cried for our whole people. I feel really sorry for the people in Syria. My apartment or my property is a very, very small part of this big disaster. Syria looks like hell today. It's completely hell and chaos.
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.
Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.
I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.
We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
Obamacare is a disaster. And you remember, I called that from before it was approved. I said, "This can't work, because it's just. . . The plan is no good. The concept is no good," and it turned out to be much worse.
All across the world,. . . increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
We love disasters that have nothing to do with us
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.