Calamity Quotes

264 Calamity quotes by 199 unique authors

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
Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when… — Oswald Chambers
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do… — Epictetus
Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. — Rohinton Mistry
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. — Horace
Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring. — Helen Keller
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will… — Thomas Paine
When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking… — John Flavel
The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our… — Thomas Jefferson

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