Calamities Quotes

89 Calamities quotes by 75 unique authors

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that… — Albert Schweitzer
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis… — George Will
It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such… — John Irving
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after. — Jean Ferris
He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over. — Og Mandino
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us… — Henry Miller
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in… — Swami Satchidananda
Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life. — Sidney Sheldon
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil… — Charlotte Bronte
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,… — Fernando Pessoa
...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
Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities. — Voltaire
More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis involving sickness or… — Ezra Taft Benson
Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels… — Seneca the Younger
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and… — Jules Verne
As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to… — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? — Virgil
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. — Beilby Porteus
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going… — John Coleman
The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate… — Henry Miller
This is when Money will be dethroned! Only when there will not be many people left, when most of them will save themselves through suicide… — Sorin Cerin

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