Slash (Saul Hudson) Quotes

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

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

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Disaster

• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Up
  • Why
  • Clear

• I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Play
  • Sports

• Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Pride
  • Disaster

• Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Men
  • Today
  • Disaster

• President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Way
  • President
  • Created

• The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Art
  • Purpose
  • Express

• People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.

  

  Lisa See
  • People
  • War
  • Strong

• The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • World
  • Chance
  • Disaster

• the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Road
  • Natural
  • Mystery

• Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.

  

  Dr. John
  • Earth
  • City
  • Disaster

• The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Leaving
  • Disaster
  • Ruins

• Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

  

  John Money
  • Sports
  • Disaster
  • Temperament

• I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Destroy
  • Master
  • Disaster

• While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Black
  • Desire
  • Impression

• Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Destroy

• How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Virtue
  • Long Time

• There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Water
  • Miracle
  • Protection

• He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this invasions of privacy. So all in all, Barack Obama is a disaster.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Disaster
  • Privacy
  • Barack Obama

• In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Compassion
  • Shows
  • Pay

• I was disappointed in our fourth quarter beginning. We put ourselves in a good position, and didn't score for the first three minutes of the fourth quarter. We gave it away in the fourth, and went from one to eleven.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • Beginning
  • Position

• Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

  

  George Eliot
  • Think
  • Decide
  • Stick

• When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Disaster
  • Transcendent
  • Self-inflicted