Calamity Quote by George Will Download Open image “Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.” — George Will ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calamity Destiny Distance People Safe
The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers. — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur. — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
We actually lead very violent, passionate lives and I think that we're hungry for insights into this condition. That's why we get all that… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity. — Sax Rohmer Copy Share Image
a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction… — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
We know a little bit about a lot of things. Just enough to make us dangerous. — Dean Winchester Copy Share Image
In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice… — George Will Copy Share Image
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. — George Will Copy Share Image
As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards. — George Will Copy Share Image
Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we… — George Will Copy Share Image
The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of… — George Will Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests… — George Will Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving… — George Will Copy Share Image
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture… — George Will Copy Share Image
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — George Will Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it’s working for my good, And it’s building my testimony... — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image