Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Many ordinary Americans make themselves feel better by saying what the famous daytime TV idiot says. But it leads to absolute calamity… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Religious fervor controlled by prejudice and ignorance is the greatest calamity that can befall a nation.” — John R. (John Roy) Musick Copy Share Image
It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point. — Yasmin Copy Share Image
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love. — Kevin Moffett Copy Share Image
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that… — Peter Lilley Copy Share Image
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
That America is in the calamity is a result of a certain amount of elitism in the Democratic Party where they're tied… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity. — Sax Rohmer Copy Share Image
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities,… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity. — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first… — John Muir Copy Share Image
