Calamity Quotes

264 Calamity quotes by 199 unique authors

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations.… — John Podhoretz
Calamity is the test of integrity. — Samuel Richardson
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. — Samuel Richardson
Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where… — Rick Santorum
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that… — Albert Schweitzer
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. — Bill Watterson
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis… — George Will
There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the… — Hanna Rosin
It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such… — John Irving
My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; — Mark Twain
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but… — Ayn Rand
After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which… — Rohinton Mistry
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men… — Arthur Schopenhauer
And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after. — Jean Ferris
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over. — Og Mandino
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable… — Thomas Paine
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or… — C.S. Lewis
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us… — Henry Miller
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to… — Jonathan Lethem
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities. — J.R.R. Tolkien
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of… — Jean Cocteau

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