Calamity Quotes

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.

We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Bear calamities with meekness.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.

My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.

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 and utter calamity

Calamity was ordained for man.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.