James Nesbitt

Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.

Irish Actor

Theodore Dalrymple

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.

English Writer

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

American President

Thomas Merton

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

American Author

Natalia Kills

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, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

English Musician

Margot Fonteyn

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.

English Dancer

Grant Shapps

I believe that investing in welfare is crucial - but I also believe that it only works if you're getting help to those who need it. If you're doing it with no results, it's disastrous.

British Politician

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.

Russian Writer

Some of us don't respect water. We waste it and pour it out. But a lot of disastrous stuff involves water. Tsunamis. Hurricanes.

American Musician

Taylor Caldwell

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Used to describe events with extreme negative outcomes, often beyond repair.

Extreme Harm

Commonly used in news to describe severe natural disasters or accidents.

News Reports

Highlights the severity of a situation, stronger than just 'bad' or 'damaging'.

Emphatic Description

Describes outcomes of personal actions that fail badly, often humorously.

Personal Failures

Can describe professional tasks that go very wrong, causing frustration or loss.

Work Context

Sometimes used exaggeratively in casual speech for minor setbacks.

Hyperbolic Tone

 Institutionally, new rules get enacted to correct previous dysfunctions. For example, term limits. Political leaders used to retain their positions for life, and they used that to accumulate power and perpetuate their rules. Mao was the father of modern China, yet his prolonged rule led to disastrous mistakes.

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 tiny cracks can be just as dangerous. Concrete is often used as a secondary support around steel reinforcements. In this concrete, even small cracks can channel water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide that corrode the steel and lead to disastrous collapse.

What if cracks in...

 even their chicks with such a small population this new threat could see the cassowary disappear forever from Australia which would be disastrous for this ancient rainforest the castle is crucial for the Daintree rainforest to

Nature's Oddest Looking...

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Giant Cassowaries are...

 wasn't quite right but did nothing many of us of course won't have to work in situations quite as critical or disastrous as those but we all live and work in places where something is begging to be said and the magic of

The sound of things not...

 a juice diet might be helpful. But for someone high in vitamin A, juicing could be disastrous. And regardless of personal nutrition, maintaining a juice diet over multiple weeks is likely to compromise the immune system

Is it possible to lose...

 horns over 70 percent of the entire world population is in one park in india and if that park got hit by disease flooding civil war it could be disastrous and if that happened captive-bred rhinos like behan's baby

Beloved Rhino Prepares...

 And when a disastrous flood drowns their home, the sisters band together into a massive living raft— carrying their queen to safety. But no matter how resilient, the life of a colony must come to an end.

Mating frenzies, sperm...

 share and when you look at the cosmos and the universe is around us it's an anomaly it's it's it's something so unique that has come together from so many thousands of potential disastrous

Millions of Salmon...

 Economic expansion, urbanization, and a lack of medical knowledge contributed to the disastrous spread of plague. In turn, however, the disease helped catapult

Disastrous