quotes about Calamity
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
-- Albert Camus -
Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
-- Benjamin E. Mays -
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I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more
-- Bill Vaughan -
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
-- Bill W. -
Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah
-- Francine RiversSource : Francine Rivers (2002). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.337, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
-- Grover Cleveland -
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.
-- Guru Nanak -
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The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'
-- Helen Keller -
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-- John Lancaster SpaldingSource : John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Thoughts and Theories of Life and Education”
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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 SappSource : Song: My Testimony
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The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.
-- Publilius Syrus -
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
-- Robert Bly -
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
-- Samuel Johnson -
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.
-- Suzanne Curchod -
We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.
-- Swami Satchidananda -
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Half a calamity is better than a whole one.
-- T. E. LawrenceSource : T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)”, p.1473, e-artnow
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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
-- William Davenant -
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point.
-- Yasmin -
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marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.
-- Marthe Bibesco -
Hatred is internal calamity that destroys the keeper
-- Aftab Alam -
Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.
-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet -
miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free.
-- Lisa St. Aubin de Terán -