A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves. — Bill Vaughan 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
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still… — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco's book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, where they visit what they… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of… — Herman Melville 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
If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a… — Hafez Copy Share Image
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“In this chthonian world the only thing of importance is orthography and punctuation. It doesn't matter what the nature of the calamity… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
“And if there’s no trouble, you’ll make it,’ offered Will Scott, his eyes bright, his cheeks red. ‘No. At the moment,’ affirmed… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I mean when was the last time we had one of these contract signings... that didn't end... in some sort of horrible… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Kyoto costs a lot, does nothing to prevent calamity, and pays no compensation in the event of loss. If my insurance broker… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster... The Lord has… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image