He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it — Bill W Copy Share Image
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities.… — William Graham Sumner 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
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
Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain,… — Athenaeus Copy Share Image
Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see…… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The honest man will be pulled to safety but the wicked shall fall by calamity' — Janneth Copy Share Image
Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
