Definition of Disaster

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

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

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

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 see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
Henry Miller

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

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.
Newt Gingrich

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

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

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
Isaac Asimov

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

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

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.
Quentin Crisp

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

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.
Steve Irwin

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom

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

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
Joe Biden

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

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
Martha Beck

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.
Anne Wilson Schaef

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Xun Zi

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Pierre Corneille

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
Pierre Corneille

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca West

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Michael Korda

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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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