I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods. But we know… — Sonia Gandhi 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
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster... The Lord has… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a… — Hafez Copy Share Image
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the… — Aeschylus 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
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
“It was the music that finally roused Leo back to consciousness. “Hey. I like that old song,” he croaked, completely oblivious to… — Delora Dennis 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
Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first… — John Muir 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
