Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.
There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
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 andor absurd national disasters.
There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs!
Smile. . . it kills time between disasters.
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
We face a fundamental question which can be described as both ethical and ecological. How can accelerated development be prevented from turning against man? How can one prevent disasters that destroy the environment and threaten all forms of life, and how can the negative consequences that have already occurred be remedied?
In life, the worst disasters come from passion.
In the U. S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny.
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
U. N. officials said today they desperately need $7 billion to help people cope with disasters, but they're having a hard time getting people to send rescue money. Here's what the UN should do: Invest in bad mortgages, run a bank into the ground, give yourself a bonus, get some spa treatments and, in no time, the government will send you $750 billion.
I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.
One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know. . . earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.
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.
There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.
Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.
