Calamity Quotes

264 Calamity quotes by 199 unique authors

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. — William Davenant
Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it. — Al-Tabarani
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. — Publilius Syrus
Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity. — Paulo Coelho
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which… — Henry Mackenzie
For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster... The Lord has warned us of… — Ezra Taft Benson
Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such… — Frank B. Kellogg
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell… — Thomas Brooks
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. — Robert Bly
My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be… — Zachary Taylor
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 Yasgur’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. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’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

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