It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
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
I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
'Calamity Jane' inspired me to be a performer. I still want to be her. — Gayle Rankin Copy Share Image
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,… — Thomas Jefferson 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
As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease. — Mencius Copy Share Image
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison 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
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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