For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. — Calamity Jane Copy Share Image
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize… — Tony Kushner 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
The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the… — Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps Copy Share Image
“At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that… — Susan Bysiewicz Copy Share Image
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact is, out of all the possible reasons for going bankrupt, only three account for nearly 90 percent of bankruptcy: a… — Amelia Warren Tyagi Copy Share Image
“The suspicion that a calamity might also be a punishment is further useful in that it allows an infinity of speculation. After… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was… — Maurice Sendak 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
The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
'Calamity Jane' inspired me to be a performer. I still want to be her. — Gayle Rankin Copy Share Image
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. — William Davenant 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
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
