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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.
I can’t imagine anything being more disastrous to our country than if the dollar lost its reserve-currency status.
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
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 would do with it.
A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.
Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.
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 again with my studies.
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
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 sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.
Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.
The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.
I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.
If you're on Thursday night at 8:30, because the history of that time slot has been so disastrous, there's a hell of a lot of numbers pressure.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.
My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.
We're going to renegotiate our disastrous trade deals and illegal immigration. Stop the massive inflow of refugees.
During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners.
Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.
Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.
We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.
By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.
Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.
It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums
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 behaving with integrity.
No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.
When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.
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 marriages and I have to pay for them.
My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.
Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.
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 to their own prejudice.
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 Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
It is a lot easier to manage at a big club rather than at a smaller one. Look at Frank Rijkaard. At Sparta Rotterdam, he was disastrous - and then went to Barca and won everything.
The explosive growth of the for-profit school industry has had disastrous effects on millions of Americans and our economy.
Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.
Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!
Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!
A mercurial plan of action may have worked in the Trump Organization board room, but it's a disastrous tactic in foreign affairs.
America has lost nearly one-third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997 following the enactment of disastrous trade deals supported by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.
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 down to some random quirk of fate.
The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.
In India, most people are not aware or are unconcerned about copyright laws. This has proved disastrous for the music fraternity.
The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.
Moscow and Washington have evolved a delicate process for 'de-confliction' in the tight Syrian airspace, where accidents or miscommunication could be disastrous.
Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at the time, but what has been worse is how long it has lingered.
