#disasters

I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level. ↗

— Ted Danson

#anxiety #being #between #difference #different

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else. ↗

— Pete Hamill

#anywhere #bigger #country #diamonds #disasters

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. ↗

— Daryn Kagan

#arise #bad #disasters #disease #doing

Did you know that the word "tsunami," which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past. ↗

— Junichiro Koizumi

#being #being used #did #disasters #extent

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#disasters #example #falling #labour #only

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#could #countries #create #developed #developed countries

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#average #average man #conformist #cow #disasters

But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters. ↗

— David E. Price

#against #attacks #avoid #between #colleagues

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#charity #charity work #continue #difficult #disasters

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#business #common-defense #disasters #domestic-tranquility #emergencies