Calamity Quotations

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

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

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

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

I was a huge 'Deadwood' fan because I'm a huge David Milch fan, so I've always wanted to play something like Calamity Jane on 'Deadwood' and just be the biggest Western tomboy girl, ever.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

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

Please suspend your business and work for three hours to spend time in prayer for the dead and the survivors of the unforgettable calamity that visited our brethren.

Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.

I will not allow any effort to hide the truth or cover up any aspect of what happened, because the calamity is great, the accident grave,

Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.

We have started a new year with a singular chance to prove that our humanity is intact and well -- a chance to prove that when calamity strikes, we are equal to the task,

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

We've been really and truly planning and looking at the whole gamut of medical issues. Every bit of that has strengthened this region to be able to respond to whatever calamity that may occur.

There is about to be a big calamity if something isn't done soon. Without the regional centers, we are dead in the water.

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

We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value.

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

Calamity was ordained for man.

We are an integral part of the Kenyan community and any calamity that affects a part of it, affects us all. I am pleased to see that we respond not only as an organization, which is our duty, but as individuals as well.

We are a region with two masters. One is India and the other Pakistan. Each of them want to stick to their viewpoint and we are at the receiving end. In a calamity such as an earthquake we should be allowed to take our own decisions.

It wouldn't be a calamity unless we lost another 5 (percent) to 10 percent of capacity,

It was a calamity of errors on plays that you have to make. I am embarrassed at how we played and our lack of fire when we got down early. We are a much better team than we showed today and will demonstrate that when we play them again next week in our league opener.

Special teams have been good all the time. We just had a calamity in one game. Like anything else, we just need to be poised in crucial situations.

Stoking the fire of sectarian discord and civil strife will be a calamity for all,

The New Orleans calamity proved overwhelmingly the government's inability to solve chronic, fundamental problems with communications. No one in the government has shown leadership on this issue, and now the results are tragic.

Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

Any major calamity we've witnessed, the banks have been some of the best performers.

The magnitude of this calamity is beyond comprehension, ... It's like Sept. 11 all over again.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.

It was during this campaign that I was christened Calamity Jane. It was on Goose Creek, Wyoming, where the town of Sheridan is now located.

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy.

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it’s working for my good, And it’s building my testimony...

For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.

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?

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

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

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

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

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

The stock actor is a stage calamity

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life

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

Bear calamities with meekness.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

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

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

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

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.