Calamity Quotes · Page 4

Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.

— Chanakya

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

— Mario Cuomo

I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

— Calamity Jane

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

— Jaggi Vasudev

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

— Philip Massinger

When there is a calamity, don't think about the party, think beyond the party.

— Sharad Pawar

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

— Marthe Bibesco

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find…

— Samuel Johnson

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

We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were…

— Charlie Munger

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,

— Antonio Guterres

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which…

— Wang Yangming

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part…

— Samuel Beckett

There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time…

— Henry Miller

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still…

— Eric Liddell

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All…

— George Orwell

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed…

— Charles Spurgeon

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice…

— Eldridge Cleaver

“The suspicion that a calamity might also be a punishment is further useful in that it allows an infinity of speculation. After…

— Christopher Hitchens

In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to…

— Albert Camus

The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the…

— Zicheng Hong

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be…

— Anonymous

Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that…

— Rick Moody

More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis…

— Ezra Taft Benson

See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to…

— Leonid Andreyev

Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

— Anonymous

You're like a typhoon. Because when you left the vicinity. You left my heart in calamity.

— Anonymous

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

— Benjamin E. Mays

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

— Sidney Sheldon

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

— Albert Camus

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

— Helen Keller

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

— Rohinton Mistry

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

— George Will