Quotes with disastrous

  • Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
  • 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 two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Carroll Quigley The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Billy Collins Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Barry Eichengreen Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Ayn Rand 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
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Arianna Huffington 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 differences between the sexes.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Ben Stein Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Tennessee Williams Success and failure are equally disastrous.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • C. L. R. James The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.
    The Black Jacobins pp. 283.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Carl Sagan The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Erickson This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Ann Patchett 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 two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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