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Climate is always evolving, and natural disaster have always existed.


Marco Rubio
We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
Nan Hayworth
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.


Xun Kuang
Tags: Man Bring Pride
The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean.
Paul Watson
Tags: Just Because Us
I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.
Mike Rogers
Tags: Hope Our Will
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
Warren Rudman
Tags: Good You People
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In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.


Ronald Kessler
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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.


Rebecca West
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.


Isaac Asimov
Tags: Time World Over
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To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.


Pierre Corneille
Tags: Your Take Either
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.


Walter Ulbricht
Tags: Great People Only
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.


Martha Beck
Tags: Age Our Never
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Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.


Stella Young
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.


Orlando Bloom
We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.
Diane Ackerman
Tags: About Think Just
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When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.


Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Tags: You About Them
The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
Irwin Redlener
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I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'


Peter Capaldi
Tags: Make Got Could
Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.
Norm Dicks
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Maurice Maeterlinck
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
George McGovern
Tags: Good War Me
Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.
Paul O'Grady
Tags: Me Being Every
AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.
Theodor Mommsen
Tags: Peace Well May
I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.
Ha-Joon Chang
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.
Sylvester Stallone
Tags: People Me Who
My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
Ian McShane
The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient's eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon's diagnosis.
Paul Kalanithi
Tags: Look Better Means
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
A. R. Ammons
Tags: Time Chance Then
American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.
Noam Chomsky
Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
Daniel Akaka
If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.
Gaylord Nelson
Tags: Only Where Live
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
Nathalie Sarraute
Tags: People Been Would
Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
Naftali Bennett
Tags: Out Them World
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
William Throsby Bridges
Tags: Make Much Some
The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.
Timothy Noah
Tags: Things Way Lot
The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster.
Nick Cave
Tags: Me Just Get
In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
W. Edwards Deming
Tags: About Really Had
Any idea of a united India could never have worked, and in my judgment, it would have led us to terrific disaster. Maybe that view is correct; maybe it is not - that remains to be seen.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Tags: Would Never Any
The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.
Robert Dallek
Tags: About Who Had