Disastrous Quotes

180 Disastrous quotes by 166 unique authors

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target.… — Nils-Axel Morner
No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most… — Thomas Sowell
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his… — C.S. Lewis
We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so… — Pope John XXIII
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate,… — Natalia Kills
But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t… — Barack Obama
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that… — Joseph Wood Krutch
I think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it… — Leon Panetta
When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of… — Naguib Mahfouz
Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the… — Ann Patchett
Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results. — Reince Priebus
Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,'… — Ron Rash
Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering… — China Mieville
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat,… — Clara Zetkin
Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is… — Martin Amis
And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but… — Theodor Adorno
It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests… — Dorothy L. Sayers
If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a… — Benjamin Carson
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply… — Antony Sher
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China. — Bernie Sanders
If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up… — Vincent Van Gogh
I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time. — Patrice Evra
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they… — Walter J. Phillips
Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his… — Susan B. Anthony
I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system. — Bernie Sanders

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