Calamitous Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit…
— H. L. Mencken
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It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp…
— V.S. Naipaul
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I said to myself, we must die. Sooner or later, we must disappear forever from the face of the earth. Whatever be the links that…
— Charles Brockden Brown
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
— Walter Savage Landor
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I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.
— Rafael Sabatini
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High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for…
— Anthony Giddens
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But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was…
— Gil Kane
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It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
— Thomas Paine
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An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news…
— Josh Radnor
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Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those…
— Jandy Nelson
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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible…
— Epictetus
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Life’s a freaking mess… there’s not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts,…
— Jandy Nelson
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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken…
— Margaret Atwood
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You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.
— Steven Moffat
Who Wrote These Calamitous Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Calamitous Quotes as follows: