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A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.

Alfred North Whitehead

These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.

Benedict Xvi

For me to be trying to run the Clayton County Sheriff's Department from this courthouse, it's going to be a disaster.

James Thrash

This disaster did not end the day Katrina made landfall.

Michael Brown

This is the most expensive, worst and most complicated disaster that we've had to deal with for a long time.

Jeanne Salvatore

Barring a major disaster, I don't see anything that will put the brakes on this for the foreseeable future.

Mason Jackson

We anticipate this is going to be a long-term disaster response.

Kay Wilkins

If we do it, it's a budget disaster.

Joel Hefley

It was a terrible natural disaster but an even greater human catastrophe.

Tom Morello

I call it an ecological disaster, and we are going to bring to the full extent of the law anyone who has breached Alberta law.

Guy Boutilier

Every location in the country is exposed to one disaster or another.

Wendy Rose

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Simon Wiesenthal

This was a tough course with disaster lurking at every turn.

Bob Mcmurray

We tried him in the outfield, but that was a disaster.

Jon Bolin

If you had asked people earlier last week, they would have said it was a disaster.

Robert Sasaki

You don't want to campaign in areas that have been hit by a natural disaster. There's no place in Florida that has been unaffected.

Scott Maddox

If there is no intervention, then we could be talking about the same disaster we had in 2000.

Abdullahi Ali Haji

The chamber has sort of come together out of the rubble of this disaster.

James Roland

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John D. Rockefeller

[We will have] ongoing use of these buses, ... This is the biggest disaster to hit this country. It's the size of Great Britain. It's unbelievable.

Jeff Griffin

The disaster reduction capacity in China has been tremendously enhanced across the board.

Li Liguo

Some of these are small companies that don't have disaster insurance or disaster recovery plans.

Stephen Moret

If the government were serious to begin with, we could have avoided a repeat of this type of disaster.

Von Hernandez

This is a true positive from a very unfortunate natural disaster.

James Malone

The shuttle was an absolute disaster.

Bill Donabedian

It was a disaster. An absolute, total, public relations disaster.

Amy Walsh

They wanted to get it out to all the appropriate agencies and individuals having to do with disaster preparedness.

Lawrence Andreas

This is a bad omen, a bad bill and a disaster for Africa.

Randall Robinson

Communications is always where you fail in any disaster. It's something we need to really focus on.

Bonnie Reed

I saw Pensacola after Ivan and it was nothing like this, ... This is a disaster, the big one.

David Burnett

BSE is not contagious. If it had been a contagious disease, like hoof and mouth disease, we'd have a disaster.

Billy Powell

We are determined to do all that we can to help the victims of this disaster.

Richard Syron

The immensity of the disaster is still becoming clearer daily.

Jan Vandermoortele

This is the best of projects. This is the worst of projects. This is a disaster going to happen.

Richard Duncan

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Anne Wilson Schaef

This is such a huge disaster we're not going to be able to prevent all of this.

Tamara Faulkner

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Quentin Crisp

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Ada Louise Huxtable

It's probably the largest weather disaster we've had in years.

Donnie Smith

The need for this just doesn't go away because of a natural disaster.

Rob Stevenson

We think that's a recipe for disaster.

Jeremy Hobbs

We are on the brink of disaster.

Mark Fontaine

The unique thing about both of the disaster acts is you do not have to be a victim to somehow be affected.

Mark Steber

That's just a disaster as far as I'm concerned.

Tod Martin

Katrina is one of the most disruptive and challenging disaster in American history.

Tom Mann

Can you imagine, with all the mulch we spread, what a disaster that would be?

Michelle Foster

It was a total economic disaster.

Leonard Mckay

It's a technical, structural disaster. This is long overdue.

Phil Barbarello

What it left would be a disaster.

Mel Goldstein

Nothing was the same -- just like any disaster.

Gene Poston

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Catherine Ii

Believe me, it will be a disaster from a humanitarian perspective.

Ruud Lubbers

It's certainly disappointing that we're back to where we were. But it's not a disaster.

David Magnus

Disaster seems to follow us.

Gabriel Velasco

Man, it's a disaster down there, ... Everything you're hearing about it is pretty much how it is.

Anthony Collins

Disaster planning is the key to the future.

Thomas Wachtel

If you were a disaster victim, you probably never met a FEMA employee. They were all [reservists].

George Haddow

This disaster may have the number of people who died after the disaster bigger than those killed by the earthquake.

Rashid Khalikov

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

You can't get blood out of a turnip. This is a natural disaster and we may see more of this.

Peter Chapman

In some areas, it was total disaster.

Patrick Sullivan

The difference with this disaster is that we have an energy shock.

Laurence Meyer

It appears that the officials there have been overwhelmed by the magnitude of this disaster.

Robert Eckels

All somebody had to do was throw a cigarette out and we have a disaster.

George Andrews

We need the community's support and that's what Dining for Disaster is all about.

Florence Kawoczka

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

Malcolm Midgely

It kind of came out of the chute with some real flaws in it. I wouldn't say it was a complete disaster but they clearly had some real problems.

Neil Strother

We were able to give them priority based on a natural disaster preference.

Henry Morris

Absolute disaster ... I'm hopeful that it will represent the low point.

Gerard Arpey

It's a disaster for him, I think. It's never a good thing for a president to say he doesn't know something.

Michael Hogan

This wouldn't have happened without Bob and his disaster recovery expertise.

Doug Cole

This is a total disaster. It couldn't get worse than this.

Francesco Cossiga

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

Amy Gabriel

It would have been a major disaster if the bag had fallen open.

William Hague

The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.

Junichiro Koizumi

It has been a complete, total disaster. I hold a lot of people responsible.

Mike Edmondson

The Bay Area is probably better prepared than most urban areas for a natural disaster. But it's not prepared enough.

Chris Poland

With these aircraft they will fly up into the remote regions that have been most devastated by the recent disaster.

Frank Hall

Sewage can lead to another disaster, which is disease.

Walter Maestri

We are a bus crash away from complete and total disaster.

Donald R. Smithburg

All in all, it could have been a lot worse. With another inch or so, there wouldn't have been anywhere for it to go and it really could have been a disaster.

David Flint

We're not ready to handle that type of disaster.

Don Trent

Losing one day in July is an economic disaster.

John Banks

When it all adds up together, you can really have a disaster.

Dr. Fredric Gordon

It has been a real disaster.

Miguel Diaz

You see this? ... This is your story: American Red Cross disaster.

Ann Brown

One of the causes of the disaster is deforestation carried by thieves, but we don't know who they are.

Hadi Supeno

A major hurricane - a Category 3, 4 or 5 - can't come ashore anywhere in the United States without causing a major disaster.

Roger Pielke

Even when there's no natural disaster Blacks have lived the closest (to these facilities).

Robert Bullard

We're trying to build a small city here. But we can't get things we need because of the hurricane disaster.

Paul Carlson

Bush caused this disaster. And you caused this disaster because you voted for that ape.

Joseph Cannon

I think the sector is cranking along and there's a couple of stocks that will do well out of that disaster (the destruction in New Orleans).

Matt Willis

We have suffered neither a landslide nor a disaster, but a setback.

Hugh Gaitskell

This is going to be one of the, if not the, most costly natural disaster in the United states.

Jeanne Salvatore

I think we were close to a disaster, ... It didn't happen, and that's the good news.

James Kallstrom

Preparedness is the only way we can combat a natural disaster.

John Quinlan

I like what I do, disaster or not.

Nancy Hayes

We had no plan for post disaster.

Rep. Gayle Harrell

You're talking about an ecological disaster of unprecedented proportion.

James Dalessandro

Yesterday Governor Perry declared Texas a state of disaster.

Bob Watts

A dividend cut is not built into the stock price. If AT&T were to cut the dividend it would be a disaster.

Patrick Comack

I would think that any disaster preparedness center would address the needs of those who are most vulnerable. That was not the case here.

Stephen Thomas

When you have a disaster of this magnitude, borders are immaterial.

Mike Stone

These cult fad stocks always end up in disaster.

Ivan Feinseth

It's an ecological disaster for both estuaries.

Kevin Henderson

To lose the presence of the Red Cross from Temecula, in my way of thinking, would be a disaster.

Ron Roberts

It seems after the disaster many good things and blessings happen.

William Jackson

Our hope is that 'Dining for Disaster' brings in $10,000.

Florence Kawoczka

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

Jim Wallis

If it costs $50 to renovate it, it would be too much. That building has been a disaster from the beginning.

Ralph Moore

A delay is not a good thing, but it's not a disaster.

Laith Kubba

It was the miracle day and the disaster day also because there were a lot of miracle stories to be told.

Gene Poston

Those are the kind of problems that can creep up with a disaster like this.

Jenny Lehman

Firefighters are about saving lives. When you have a disaster or collapse you have to be prepared. That's what we're all about.

David Pegg

Is the situation really a crisis? Do not treat every bump in the road as a disaster.

Max Messmer

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Stirling Moss

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

Bible

We were in a 16-acre disaster zone that went for 10 or 12 blocks.

Dr. Thomas Graham

If that paperwork is not done, you're not going to be able to get any assistance for anybody. That's key in a disaster.

Rick Ferreira

In many ways, CRM is the opposite of peer-to-peer computing, ... CRM is a disaster.

David Steele

Social contract for disaster.

Richard Wiseman

Every disaster is different. The magnitude is different. The area is different. The people are different.

Frank Galvan

It was a disaster. They did not check any of those references, and they just took them because it was the low bidder.

Paul Hunt

A formula for disaster.

Mike Tranghese

There have been a lot of students that have become interested in helping out due to the disaster.

Tristan Taylor

The disaster has been brought to us and we have to respond.

Billy Hayes

It really does reflect the enormous amount of coverage of the Katrina disaster.

John Shin

After watching [news of the disaster] on TV, we were just like, 'What can we do?'

Benji Levi Madden

Disaster!: Catastrophes That Shook the World.

Richard Platt

This effort to have a first-in-the-nation caucus is going to be a disaster.

Mike Foster

If you're young and healthy, this can work well. If you're not young and healthy, it can be a disaster, and you can end up much worse off than you currently are.

Robert Greenstein

It takes funding away from cities and counties and brings it to Columbia. We think that's a disaster.

Jeff Willis

It was not a typical disaster. Usually you are left with something.

David Stegner

What do I think? It's wonderful. A strike would have been such a disaster.

Tom Page

This is a disaster for all markets in Latin America.

Geoffrey Dennis

It's a disaster for Formula One in the States [on the farcical 2005 GP].

Nick Heidfeld

We can try to convert this disaster into an opportunity.

Kashif Murtaza

When there's a disaster, there must be a backlash in fashion. But the figures aren't in yet, so we don't know.

Stan Herman

Because of the hurricane disaster, we reduced our rate by 25 percent.

Joseph Rice

Our detectives were very concerned. This was a recipe for disaster.

Michael Chiu

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

William Tecumseh Sherman

It would have been a disaster for our fans.

Steve Holton

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

Chris Morris

This will be part of a total community disaster management program.

Don Riley

Corruption isn't a natural disaster.

David Nussbaum

I would say that we have courted disaster in Iraq , in North Korea , in Iran .

Lawrence Wilkerson

Let the banks do disaster lending directly. They're in the business of making loans.

John Ducrest

The effects of this disaster are absolutely devastating. Abbott is answering the call to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Miles White

With a natural disaster, who do you get mad at?

David Fassler

He hasn't looked back since then (the Stanford disaster).

Nic Bideau

There is no connection between morality and disaster, Are we going to think that they deserved that? That would be atrocious.

Huston Smith

We inherited such a disaster.

Thabo Mbeki

President Bush has declared the county a disaster area.

Tamara Jenkins

This disaster was one of the most preventable disasters that we've seen in American history.

Greg Stone

You have to remember, with a disaster like this, even the line can be a disaster.

Thomas Smith

A disaster of this magnitude ... has never happened on this scale in U.S. history.

Mark Merritt

He is using the disaster.

Nina Trasoff

These things happen on a real disaster. It's good practice.

Lauren Zimmerman

That would be a real disaster.

Durland Fish

It's aimed at helping businesses cover their operating expenses had the disaster not occurred.

Carol Chastang

We really do believe this is the greatest natural disaster in our history.

Bill Crawford

He prefers a glorious disaster to mediocrity.

Christophe Barbier

Disaster management in Nigeria is almost zero. If there's a major disaster in Nigeria, we won't be able to cope.

Emmanuel Ijewere

It's surreal. I can't believe I made it from a total disaster to electricity.

Emily Wood

This is a recipe for disaster.

Elliot Katz