A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“Calamity has come on you, my brethren, and, my brethren, you deserved it,” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. — Samuel Richardson 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
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
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
Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after. — Jean Ferris Copy Share Image
Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“A calamity that makes you turn to Allah(God) is better for you than a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities.… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
When thoughts arise, as soon as you sense them heading on the road of desire, bring them right back onto the road… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
“Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blinding credulous… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not… — George Mason Copy Share Image
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I am giving them a Warning and a Guidance from God to help them to do that which will save America. And… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“He would never want to diminish that event, that blow. It was nothing less than a calamity. It has shrunk his world,… — J.M. Coetzee 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
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
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
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
