Disaster Relief

Famous quotes containing the words disaster and/or relief:

“From disaster good fortune comes, and in good fortune lurks disaster.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The beginner’s well-known propensity for obtruding upon his own privacy, by introducing himself, or a vicar, into his first novel, owes less to the attraction of a ready theme than to the relief of getting rid of oneself, before going on to better things.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)