Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irvine Welsh

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

People regard the monsoon season as a natural disaster and there have always been negative conceptions that the monsoon season isnt a good time to visit Terengganu,

No state can truly be ready for a disaster of the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina.

A disaster of this magnitude ... has never happened on this scale in U.S. history.

Jim Nelson

A disaster is whatever will drive you out of business.

Bryan Robson

A draw wouldn't be a disaster for us but no way would I ever send my team out to draw a game.

The one thing about this disaster is there are going to be a lot of total losses. People with standard policies will be getting only what's in the policy.

After all, Post-Its can be misplaced, thrown away and lost in a disaster. Your Post-It notes don't follow you around as you move from home, to work and to the road.

Preparedness is 90 percent of a disaster. The more prepared you are, the more likely that your response is going to be smoother and less costly and save more lives.

Practice makes perfect. A much better start for me. Last year was a disaster.

Lois Lowry

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.

Tom DeLay

It would be such a disaster ... I think what you see is a combination of gratitude and prudence.

The situation is horrific. The job is colossal. One disaster occurred Saturday that couldn't be prevented but a second disaster must be.

That's not homes or businesses, just roads, bridges, infrastructure. They are going out (today) with federal disaster officials to start looking around.

That's just a disaster as far as I'm concerned.

You're talking about an ecological disaster of unprecedented proportion,

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.

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

Mark Zandi

This is a significant economic event. This is much more substantial than any other natural disaster that the U.S. has experienced.

Christine Whitman

This is far and away the worst natural disaster I've ever seen. Many people are just not going to be able to get into their houses for months.

Thad Cochran

This is going to be the most expensive natural disaster that's hit the United States in history. It's really quite phenomenal.

This is going to be one of the, if not the, most costly natural disaster in the United states.

This is such a huge disaster we're not going to be able to prevent all of this.

Nancy Pelosi

There were two disasters last week: first, the natural disaster, and second, the man-made disaster, the disaster made by mistakes made by FEMA,

Laura Bush

This is what happens when there is a natural disaster of this scope,

This is the largest single mobilization for a single natural disaster in the U.S..

This is the largest response to a single natural disaster in the 125 years of the American Red Cross, and there's no doubt it will set many records in terms of the length and expanse of the operation.

This is the largest disaster we've ever been a part of. We're kind of flying by the seat of our pants.

This is unprecedented in the history of the US, to have had a national disaster of this magnitude with a diaspora of this magnitude.

This is unlike any disaster we've ever had to handle.

a recipe for disaster -- the same kind of disaster that occurred on 9/11.

Jalal Talabani

A premature withdrawal would be a disaster for the Iraqi people and a victory for terrorism,