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
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The honest man will be pulled to safety but the wicked shall fall by calamity' — Janneth Copy Share Image
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child… — Alice Glass Copy Share Image
This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“No matter what happens, disaster piled on calamity, NO MATTER WHAT, everything will be OK in the long run.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains… — Anna Leonowens Copy Share Image
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you will not… — Torii Mototada Copy Share Image
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear,… — Robert Dodsley Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't… — Benjamin E. Mays 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
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
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
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
There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Life and death in the critical first hours of a calamity typically hinged on the preparedness, resources, and abilities of those in… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image