“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
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
It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. — Albert Camus 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
Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Each individual`s way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“4.10 ANGER Anger makes a dull man witty, But keeps him poor in eternity, A man shrinks when he is angry, And… — Munindra (Munnan) Misra 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
Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
Cookie had taken her daughter amber to school then walked the thirty-something feet to work earlier. Our business was on the second… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that he is against death. Being against death means you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in… — Pericles Copy Share Image
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence.… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular — Richard Steele 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
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue.… — George Will 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
