Disastrous Quotes
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each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if vir...
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one`s work seriously and taking one`s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn
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When asked what he learned from his disastrous experience with Alone in the Dark (2005): "That a script matters."
Uwe Boll
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Yes but the tragedy is Iraq is a disastrous mess; 10,000 Iraqis have died, American troops are dying, some of our troops have died.
Alan Labrosse
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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, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.
Andrew Lochart
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When something this disastrous occurs, when this many lives are lost, it is essential that every aspect be examined thoroughly and from all angles, ... To date, we don`t feel this has been done.
Pearl Jam
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This is what happens when you privatize Medicare. The Medicare prescription drug benefit is a massive giveaway to pharmaceutical companies, creating disastrous health effects for the nation`s poor and elderly citizens.
Austin Meier
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The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.
Dick Wolf
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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 disastrous.
John Bonham
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Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.
John Bright
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
Andrew Anagnost
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My fear is if there is a trial we`re going to see the partisanship getting involved again -- attack, counter-attack, a challenge, a counter-challenge and it`s disastrous to this country.
Robert Schuller
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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 their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no difference...
Arianna Huffington
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I think those things that are in food are all chemically disastrous when they are placed in the wrong contents where human beings are exposed to it.
Ornette Coleman
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I think if they had been on land, it still would have been disastrous, but not nearly as much,
Steve Holland
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Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California`s schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
Conan O`Brien
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Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
Adam Rickitt
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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.
Robbie Williams
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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 has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.
Ana Gabriela Ocejo
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Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
Andrew K. Reese
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Adam Braidwood
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Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
Madeleine L`Engle
Keywords: changeable :: confuse :: disastrous :: eternal :: is :: it :: knowledge :: them :: to :: truthSource: quotationspage.com
