Calamity Quotes

264 quotes by 201 authors

While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the… — Edward Jenner
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the… — Samuel Johnson
Each individual`s way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start… — Rajneesh
Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes… — Eric Liddell
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed. — Laozi
A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of… — Aeschines
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the… — Andrew Revkin
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we… — Robert E. Lee
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses… — Thomas Jefferson
As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation… — Peter Lilley
We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete… — Bill McKibben
'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath… — James Russell Lowell
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;… — Charles Caleb Colton
And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that he is against death. Being against death means you will miss the… — Rajneesh
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities. — Thucydides
There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war. — Laozi
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that… — Lord Byron
A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah — Ibn Taymiyyah
People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or… — Dakota Fanning

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