This is a tragedy among human history, the result of large numbers of human errors.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
You led us to the greatest humiliation France has experienced in 20 years.
What's the worst that can happen? A tidal wave? Glaciers with guns?
The Russian government pushed too hard to change the system overnight.
If it doesn't work, at least it will be an interesting train wreck.
For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.
Something will break very bad.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.
One economic blunder invariably brings in its train a series of blunders, each one more fruitful of disaster than the first.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
I always felt great about what I wrote for 'Newsies,' but 'Newsies' was a total flop.
One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting was a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
I've been involved in a couple of atrocious World Cups.
And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.
We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.