Calamity Quotes · Page 4

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

— George Will

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

— Rohinton Mistry

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

— Bill W

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

— H. G. Wells

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

— Voltaire

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

— Livy

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

— Robert Bly

“Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don't care…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

— Boyle Roche

There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones…

— Tara Stiles

One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them;…

— Leo Tolstoy

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

— Sun Tzu

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity

— John Cleese

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

— Anonymous

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity .

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the…

— Samuel Johnson

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have…

— Anonymous

Let me just say the rules are what they are in the Republican Party. You have to have X-number of delegates in…

— Marco Rubio

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends…

— William Ellery Channing

Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and…

— Samuel Johnson

In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were…

— David Stockman

There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his…

— Hanna Rosin

The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of…

— Franklin Pierce

There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not…

— George C. Marshall

Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing…

— Anonymous

Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train…

— Alexander Hamilton

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be…

— Anonymous

Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that…

— Rick Moody

In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to…

— Albert Camus

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

— Benjamin E. Mays

You're like a typhoon. Because when you left the vicinity. You left my heart in calamity.

— Anonymous

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

— Anonymous

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

— Helen Keller

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

— Sidney Sheldon

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

— Albert Camus

I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

— Calamity Jane

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

— Jaggi Vasudev