Disastrous Quotes

180 Disastrous quotes by 166 unique authors

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
In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain… — Harry Elmer Barnes
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay
The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand… — N. T. Wright
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm. — Knute Rockne
I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying… — Thomas Bernhard
People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to… — Rudolf Rocker
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source… — Frank Chodorov
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was… — Walter Kohn
Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. … We have incentivized fornication rather… — Bryan Fischer
In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the… — Edward Everett

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