Calamitous Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

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
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
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
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
I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized. — Rafael Sabatini
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
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
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. — Thomas Paine
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
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
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
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
Lifeâ€™s a freaking messâ€¦ thereâ€™s not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts,… — Jandy Nelson
Iâ€™m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I donâ€™t know what to say. I know the unspoken… — Margaret Atwood
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: