Calamity Quotes

264 quotes by 199 authors

Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties… — Frederick Rolfe
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it — Bill W.
On Max Yasgurâ€™s six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music and each other,… — Michael Lang
Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing minor discord before… — T.D. Jakes
In short, Mr. Ryanâ€™s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldnâ€™t pass even if Republicans were to take the… — David Stockman
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history, — Antonio Guterres
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. — John Lancaster Spalding
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of… — Ambrose Bierce
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding… — Carl Jung
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. — Benjamin E. Mays
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. — Samuel Johnson
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got… — Athenaeus
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in… — Unknown Author
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate.… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice — Grover Cleveland
Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with… — Kofi Annan
Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the… — B. C. Forbes

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