Famous Quotes & Sayings

Going in without a list is usually kind of a disaster for most of us. You're going on hunger and a whim and not planning well.

There aren't a lot of votes to be gained by overseeing a disaster relief that is handled the way it should be, but there is a political downside to not doing enough, or not doing it fast enough.

He has come to symbolize how unprepared this administration was for this disaster, fairly or unfairly,

Yasser Arafat

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

In general we are observing more and more heavy rain-associated disasters in the region.

Valerie Plame

the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.

Jan Egeland

This has never ever happened before, that two weeks after a disaster that we have $717 million that we can spend on the immediate emergency effort.

The food that we are sending out for the disaster response is food that we would normally distribute here to the food shelves and people of Minnesota, ... We're hoping that people in the state will step up and help us replenish those supplies.

Hector Lopez

You can see wherever you go that it isn't safe. We only react after a disaster - then we respond.

Emile M. Cioran

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

It's not a disaster. But it's just not good enough to rally the stock.

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

Mark Sanford

The big picture is that the federal government is a disaster with regard to long-term spending.

The better people prepare for a disaster, the better they will be able to survive it.

This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are going to have a potentially catastrophic disaster there. This is the worst-case scenario for a hurricane.

Nothing was the same -- just like any disaster.

The need for this just doesn't go away because of a natural disaster.

It's probably the largest weather disaster we've had in years.

Jan Egeland

The number one priority is to get to those who have nothing. If we don't, we will become a disaster within a disaster.

That's precisely why, when you read any disaster kit, it says you should have enough supplies for 72 hours.

It will be our worst flood disaster in the Southeast ever.

It's important to note that is not Waiver City. No one has gotten a waiver yet, and these schools will have to show that they did not meet the state standards because of this disaster and these displaced students.

It was not a typical disaster. Usually you are left with something.

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,

It may sound strange that we are still talking life saving two weeks after the disaster, when search and rescue operations have largely finished.

Nancy Farmer

I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

Nan Hayworth

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.

Niklaus Wirth

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

The key to a successful response to a disaster is in your training and your education. That way people know what to do and when to do it.

The disaster is looming large. We have thousands and thousands of very vulnerable people.

The markets have forgotten two lessons from prior natural disasters.

It's just a terrible thing that they're going to come back from 18 months of sacrifice where they have risked their lives and have a disaster of this nature (and) don't have a home to come back to,