Quotes about Disaster

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This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down f — Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the bl — Napoleon Hill, You Can Work Your Own Miracles
The witch who claims to forbear her magick for fear of causing the next Indian tsunami is really saying that she is powe — Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by over — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Here's a new 'Blessing' for our ti — Vera Nazarian
What I was sure of was that Tommy had something I'd never seen in anyone else: a blind and unhinged and totally unfounde — Greg Sestero, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
At that time my notions of nuclear power were utterly idyllic. At school and at the university we'd been taught that thi — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
It's called the Infinity Effect. — Edward M. Wolfe, In the End
Losing Abby wasn't a story I remembered from early childhood--it was in my face, debilitating me like a sickness, robbin — Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster
I stumbled into the living room, and Thomas handed me a bottle of whiskey. They all had some in a glass"You told them?" — Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster
Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - — Erin Bow, Plain Kate
It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a — Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives
It's certainly true that Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the de — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips... — Chris Cleave, Little Bee
Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters! — Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist
Well, hell yeah! I’m gonna kick your ass, too!”I narrowed my eyes at him. “Not this time you’re not. I have a new superp — Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
They don’t want me. They’re curious why you want me. And anyway, I feel sorry for anyone that thinks they have a chance. — Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
The anger subsided, and my shoulders fell. “I know you didn’t. But you have got to curb this overprotective big-brother — Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
You’re everything I’ve ever wanted, Pigeon.”“Just remember that when I take all of your money in the next poker game,” I — Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
I don’t understand you, Pigeon. I thought I knew women, but you’re so fucking confusing I don’t know which way is up.”“I — Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster