Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. — William Davenant 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
When there is a calamity, don't think about the party, think beyond the party. — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it. — Mario Cuomo 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
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
The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is… — B.K.S. Iyengar 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
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it… — Charles Spurgeon 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
The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“ We enter a time of calamity. Blood on the tarmac. Fingers in the juicer. Towers of air frozen in the lunar… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it… — Anonymous 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
By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to… — Albert Camus 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
The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
