"The worst tragedy that could have befallen me……" — Jonas Salk
"The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out."
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- During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us,… — Philip Neri
- At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three… — Therese of Lisieux
- We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. — John Lancaster Spalding
- History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers… — Thomas B. Macaulay
- I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated… — Winston Churchill
- One must exploit the asynchronies that have befallen one, link them to a promising issue or domain, reframe frustrations as… — Howard Gardner
- There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind. — Pete Townshend
- I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess… — Samuel Rogers
- Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice… — Debra L. Lee
- I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me… — Hunter S. Thompson
- A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn