Calamity Quotes
264 quotes by 201 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
— Laozi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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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
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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
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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
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There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.
— Laozi
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Calamity Quotes
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