Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.
Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion.
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.
I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.
The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
Joyce Brabner: Why does everything in my life have to be such a complicated disaster?
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
