Definition of Disaster

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Disaster

An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.

An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap.

To blast by the influence of a baleful star.

To bring harm upon; to injure.

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Disaster Quotations

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
Walt Disney

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
Sun Tzu

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.
Joe Paterno

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
Rush Limbaugh

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

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

Disaster Translations

disaster in Italian is guaio, malanno
disaster in Latin is calamitas
disaster in Norwegian is katastrofe, ulykke
disaster in Spanish is desastre, calamidad

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