#disasters

It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#disasters #entire #future #international #meet

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#discovered #fresh #friends #i #indeed

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#continues #disasters #due #economy #face

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. ↗

— May Sarton

#constant #disasters #few #garden #growth

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters. ↗

— Delia Smith

#disasters #getting #habit #i #into

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#called #commonly #course #developing #developing world

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#disaster #disasters #down #families #go

We came around the corner and stood in the doorway of what looked like a paint-testing ground. This was where we proved once and for all that we were good loving parents. We decided to let him live. "What is painting doing in my best Tupperware bowl?" I yelled. "Well, I needed something lightweight I could carry around with me," he began. "You've been carrying around a brain for year," the boy's father said. ↗

— Sylvia Harney

#home-disasters #humor #parents #sarcasm #home

So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature." "It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin," I said. "My bravery exceeds my good sense," he said. ↗

— Lee Goldberg

#nature #phobia #death

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#disaster #disasters #earthquake #forge #insight