Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Covid-19 has been a calamity for the U.K. It will leave a permanent stain on our country's history. — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco's book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, where they visit what they… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The Muskrat was still lying in his hammock and thinking. "Good afternoon, Uncle Muskrat!" said Moomintroll. "Do you know that things have… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ.… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand how, up to now, an atheist could know there is no God and not kill himself at once. To… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
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