In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens… — Samuel Johnson 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
Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for… — Earl Browder 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
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase… — Tom Robbins 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
Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance. — George Will Copy Share Image
We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past,… — Carl Jung 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
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities-yet, for all we know, it might… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
