Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irvine Welsh

I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

Valerie Plame

the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.

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.

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.

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.

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,

It's a short-term, cost-cutting strategy and it will be a disaster for the airline.

A lot of the time what you see (after a disaster like this) is an increase of what was already there before.

They give them money for gas masks but not for how are you going to mitigate for a natural disaster.

This disaster was one of the most preventable disasters that we've seen in American history.

This disaster is unleashing the type of energy-supply shock that we had viewed as the economy's greatest vulnerability.

Michael Brown

This disaster did not end the day Katrina made landfall,

This flood is not a disaster. It is an ecological windfall.

Mitch Landrieu

This is a celebration like no other in history, as it follows four months after being struck by the worst natural disaster in our nation's history.

Bob Gibson

This is a disaster. This is an industry-wide problem. Pricing is low and they're having to keep their prices down to compete.

This is a disaster of such scope and such significance that it is not going to go away in weeks or even months.

This is a disaster of enormous scale and we have to understand that,

They're using this disaster to roll back public health protection.

They took a shortcut. They didn't want to let the system take its course. They went on this trip and disaster occurred.

It's not if a disaster will come, but when.

Sean Burke

It's the toughest stretch I've been involved with in all the years I've played. It's just a disaster right now.