Disastrous Quotes

180 Disastrous quotes by 166 unique authors

Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it — Phil Harding
In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long… — Sun Tzu
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even… — Richard Serra
As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous… — Robbie Williams
We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people weâ€™d like to see the world a better place, which in this… — Stephen Schneider
Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party,… — Wilfrid Laurier
It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums — Tim Yeo
All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack ( of 9/11 ) has been planned and realized from… — Francesco Cossiga
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and… — Saint Augustine
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo… — Arthur Koestler
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American… — William Sloane Coffin
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be… — Theodore C. Sorensen
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous. — Ralph Caplan
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — John Milton
Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in the… — Murray Rothbard
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet. — Lytton Strachey
Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous. — Van Jones
China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a world, is in… — Henry A. Kissinger
When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere; I am entitled;… — Kay Redfield Jamison
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. — John Maynard Keynes

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