Calamity Quotes

264 quotes by 199 authors

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared — Sun Tzu
I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure… — Tom Dunne
Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to… — Walter E. Williams
What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our… — George Eliot
Calamity is virtue's opportunity. — Seneca the Younger
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a… — Seneca the Younger
Public calamity is a mighty leveller. — Edmund Burke
If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes… — Hafez
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh. — Lawrence Durrell
Crises are challenges, not calamities. — Guy Verhofstadt
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to… — Margaret Chan
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed.… — Mark Zandi
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we… — Pope Benedict XIV
We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of… — Pope Benedict XIV
The stock actor is a stage calamity — George Bernard Shaw
Half a calamity is better than a whole one. — T.E. Lawrence
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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