A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Ada Louise Huxtable

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
John Kasich

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
Pierre Corneille

Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.
Jacob Hacker

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?
Russ Carnahan

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
Kurt Masur

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
Josiah Strong

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
Johnny Rivers

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Elias Canetti

Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.
Paul O'Grady

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.
Dave Obey

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
Bruce Jackson

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny Depp

Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history.
Ray Nagin

Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.
Chris Chocola

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.
Emo Philips

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
Bob Ney