Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.
We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.
Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!
If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.
Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity when it's expressed in children as a pathway to household disaster. They're simply exploring their environment, manifesting their curiosity. So what you need to do is create an environment where curiosity is rewarded rather than punished, or thwarted.
You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.
A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?
Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.
I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.
War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is the vital challenge of sustainable development. If we act now there is much that can be saved which will otherwise disappear forever
Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
. . . God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.
I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.