Avoiding Disaster Quotes

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.

I had seen my buddies crash and burn. Keith Moon died, and I always thought that was the way he wanted to go. John Belushi was a dear friend. A lot of the guys that I ran with were ending up dead, and I saw myself right on schedule to do that. I had some moments of clarity - once in a while.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

Sometimes you have to hold your nose and vote for the person who is going to do the least damage or who is maybe going to pull you back from the brink.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

We were fortunate to be there a day or two before 'the big bang' and then we got the heck out of town.

The fact that nothing bad happened is good enough.

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.

I was one step away from getting my life taken away, whether it was life in prison or being dead on the streets. But I was saved.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.