The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes… — Bill Watterson 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
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
There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
“The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will… — Peter Lombard 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
And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after. — Jean Ferris 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
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history, — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ.… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and… — William Whately Copy Share Image
