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Your Quotes for 4 September 2005 - Disaster

In the past few days we have witnessed a terrible demonstration of the power of nature, with man powerless to control it. Some would say we've seen a second disaster in the way people have responded. We've heard heated discussion of whether survivors were "looting" or "finding food". I see cause for humility in the face of such powerful force, and cause for hope in how well the response has gone and how much help has been offered by those not directly affected.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
     - Arthur Golden

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
     - Carl Sandburg, 1878 - 1967

There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it; nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.
     - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680

No loss of flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
     - Helen Keller, 1880 - 1968

What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
     - William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
     - Claude Thomas Bissell

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