Calamity Quotes - Page 2

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

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

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

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.

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

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

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.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

Bear calamities with meekness.

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

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

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

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Calamity was ordained for man.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

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

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

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

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

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

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