These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance. — George Will Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it. — Al-Tabarani Copy Share Image
The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities,… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity. — Sax Rohmer 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
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
God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain,… — Athenaeus Copy Share Image
We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence.… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
“The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“This is how people behave when their dailiness is destroyed, when for a few moments they see, plain and unadorned, one of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The Muskrat was still lying in his hammock and thinking. "Good afternoon, Uncle Muskrat!" said Moomintroll. "Do you know that things have… — Tove Jansson 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
On Max Yasgur’s six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music… — Michael Lang Copy Share Image
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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