How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing could happen to others, but not to them. That is the...

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.

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city,

Politically, I wouldn’t raise rates on the 20th. Raising rates when you are trying to recover from a disaster like this is sending the wrong message.

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

We can maybe irrigate one more time. We’ve been on the verge of disaster all summer.

We are creatures of rage and madness and bitter tears and we knew that from the start. Our end was disaster and we knew that from the start. We knew it all from the start.

First, it’s the site where the bodies of the miners were recovered following the Christmas disaster and it’s also the site where legendary UMW President John L. Lewis went underground only two days after the...

[Yet for a state such as Washington, which has no personal income tax and takes nearly half of its revenue from sales taxes, a dramatic decrease in its tax base would spell disaster.] Sixty percent...

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam — good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied...

This disaster especially hits home to us, since those affected include thousands of Tyson Team Members who live in Mississippi.

We will continue to report on the disaster and its aftermath in order to explain how the actual situation varied from the accounts made by these sources.

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 from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and...

Day one was a bit of a disaster and to come back and win a gold after that was just unbelievable. I’m just so happy I was able to turn it around.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

These cult fad stocks always end up in disaster.

Disaster management has made alternative arrangements with churches around the area.

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

Terrence Boyle is a judicial disaster. He has the worst reversal rate of all the district judges nominated by President Bush. Senators should take a careful look at Judge Boyle’s record and vote to stop...

Here’s a new ‘Blessing’ for our time — ‘May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in Louisiana.] It may look from the outside as if they are stealing or breaking the...

Front grace in the shadows

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China’s continued development. That’s according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

We are looking now at a disaster above any magnitude that we’ve seen in the United States. We’ve been saying that the response is going to be the largest Red Cross response in the history...

If we have a disaster — and we think it is quite probable in the next 20-25 years — we’re not prepared to deal with it,

What’s happened can be explained by the higher cost of crude oil, the difficulties in building new refineries and the disaster that cut right through the heart of the industry.

Disasters come at us when we least expect it, and we are supposed to be prepared,

Every physician needs to have a disaster preparation and recovery plan, even if the practice is located in a relatively low-risk area for natural disasters. Even if it is not formally written down, you need...

If we didn’t have two other facilities, it would’ve been a major disaster for us to be closed for four consecutive days. Parking is still quite difficult.

More and more companies are now looking at ways that satellite services can augment their disaster recovery plans.

the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.

People of the crusader alliance behold the disasters that the policies of Bush and Blair will bring upon you and, God willing, on all of those who march behind them,

A U.N. disaster assessment and coordination team is being dispatched to Sri Lanka today to work with the government to provide rescue and relief.

It’s not a disaster. But it’s just not good enough to rally the stock.

So it must be a clear signal that, in order to avoid such a disaster, we must deploy technologies and adopt economic measures that are already available and feasible.

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother’s keeper.

This disaster is unleashing the type of energy-supply shock that we had viewed as the economy’s greatest vulnerability.

If any organization is going to get 75% of the funds in a disaster, the Red Cross is as good a destination as any. In an ideal world, the money would have been distributed a...

Disaster can strike anyone at any time. It could be me tonight.

If Y2K is a disaster it will be a global one, not a local one,

We can cover our operating expenses without the revenue from UH and we have a cushion. Notwithstanding a total disaster, these projections should hold.

And we mustn’t lose our sense of humor,” Mrs. Which said. “The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that’s what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until...

She was—of course—perfectly normal—quiet and polite andreasonablyintelligent and…normal andself destructive and lonelyand terrified of everythingAnd she lovedDisaster—

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

This designates who would be the lead agency for each disaster,

A crucial part of your plan is communicating it to your employees. Be sure everyone knows what they’ll need to do should disaster strike.

There is an unquestionable need. It would have been a disaster if HUD had not granted the transfer and we hadn’t had the other level of governments supporting this,

I am very sorry and angry about the second half. That was a disaster,