We must expect reverses even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence to call forth greater energies and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid which I've been lucky enough to be several times.

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war famine and natural disasters.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter unmitigated disaster so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

Bad things do happen in the world like war natural disasters disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

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

You may be right that people say: 'You know what we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric sounded good looked good but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net in some ways is that the fundamentals are really good.

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me not because of somebody else.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

Society is not a disease it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

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

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

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.

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.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century all natural disasters and all automobile accidents combined.

I always leave that for other people to decide because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

One morning just like 9/11 there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

If we don't change millions of American families are just one medical emergency or one layoff away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.