#disaster

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. ↗

— Ted Danson

#disasters #environmental #environmental movement #gradual #like

If this is really it...if you're really done with me...will you let me hold you tonight? - Travis ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful #break-up #disaster #jamie #mcguire

After climbing off his bike, I smacked his shoulder. “Did you forget I was with you? Are you trying to get me killed?” “It’s hard to forget you’re behind me when your thighs are squeezing the life out of me.” A smirk came with his next thought. “I couldn’t think of a better way to die, actually.” “There is something very wrong with you. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#abby-and-travis #beautiful-disaster #bike #funny #jamie-mcguire

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#natural #natural disaster #reveal #social #sometimes

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

— Rebecca West

#disaster #into #vices #virtues

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#clearly #disaster #false #iraq #out

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#could #disaster #find #i #if i could

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#absurd #admirable #agreed #barack #barack obama

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#available #best #democracies #democracy #disaster

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

#budget #disaster #economic #facing #families