Disastrous Quotes
180 quotes by 170 authors
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Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be…
— John Bonham
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
— Ray Bradbury
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I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!
— Helena Bonham Carter
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My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!
— Jan Carlzon
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If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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When people are like, Life is good, I go, No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will…
— Sandra Bullock
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Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.
— Bernhard Langer
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The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
— Robert Morley
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Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent…
— John Henry Jowett
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the…
— Lewis Mumford
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces.…
— James Keller
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Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.
— Peter Drucker
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The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche…
— R. J. Hollingdale
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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the…
— Bertrand Russell
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If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural…
— J. H. Hexter
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It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress…
— Arianna Huffington
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If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we…
— Amory Lovins
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Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds -…
— David Crystal
Who Wrote These Disastrous Quotes
170 authors contributed a total of 180 Disastrous Quotes, led by these top contributors: