#disastrous

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public. ↗

— Richard Serra

#certainly #chance #continue #disastrous #even

My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist. ↗

— Nicholas Drapela

#bomb #changes #climate #colleague #control

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#forget #god #lesson #never #never forget

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser! ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#disastrous #dresser #i #label #main

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. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#difference #disastrous #first #i #i have learned

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#analysis #been #careful #centuries #changes

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

#being #being a teenager #disastrous #fluffy #i

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end. ↗

— Henry Villard

#battery #brigade #came #clock #confusion

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#criminals #desires #disastrous #driven #end