Pastoral Resources

There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

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

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

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

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

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

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

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.

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

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

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

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.