It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Calamities have taught us a great lesson - we have to stand together when we are in danger. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin 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
As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for… — Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Copy Share Image
“Calamities and opportunities all jumbled up together and no sure way to distinguish one from the other.” — Jeffrey Lent Copy Share Image
Mama Nature is kinda good, but does spank he who plays tricks on her! — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“He could not even take comfort in knowing that he had spent most of his adult life in dread of calamities had… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“In Book VIII of the Odyssey we read that the gods weave misfortunes into the pattern of events to make a song… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
As far as natural calamities are concerned, Odisha had a very bad reputation before 2000 when we took over the government. After… — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
We all live in an ongoing series of calamities. I don't know of any individual who doesn't have a series of calamities.… — Neal Gabler 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
