#disastrous

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. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#against #complex #councils #disastrous #exists

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#bring #crisis #disastrous #freedom #hour

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#disastrous #tour #would

Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#america #because #before #believed #carter

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#day #dice #disastrous #drinking #end

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#big #big government #disastrous #government #mandates

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

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

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