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.