36 Calamity Quotes for You to Enjoy

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Charles Caleb Colton

Great Confusion Darkest Furnace Minds Purest Calamity Hottest Greatest Been Times Storm Ore Produced Productive Brightest

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. Harry Emerson Fosdick

Love Best Nature Courage Strong Hardships Soil Will Human Nature Though Characteristics Faces Mysterious Troubles He Calamity Know Knows Mixture Human Which Who Grow Need

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. Eldridge Cleaver

There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies. Hanna Rosin

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

Dreams Dream Calamity Die Unfulfilled

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. Virgil

Strength Overcome Every Calamity Endurance

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. Aeschylus

Advice Easy Easy Thing Give Outside Foot Calamity Whose Rebuke Thing

The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents. James Howard Kunstler

Rain Living Complacency Other Everyday Worldwide Striking About Devastation Environment Calamity Headlines Global Global Warming Forests American May Represents Newspaper Warming Shout Growing Species

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. Samuel Richardson

Integrity Mother Invention Calamity Well Test May Necessity

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. Annalee Newitz

Health Natural Will Natural Disasters Engineering Cities Could Allow Drives Calamity Disasters Underground Safer Healthier Survive Models Predictive Public To Survive Plan Us Public Health Radiation Using Even Designers

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. Joseph Addison

Life Nature Man Grief Humanity Enough Adding Our Evils Had Cruel Calamity Sorrows Another Continually Condition Subject Very Sown Common Aggravating Pains Treatment

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. Oliver Goldsmith

Future Alone Great Wise Regret Past Lies Great Source Calamity Source Anticipation Person Regardless Who Therefore Present Thinks

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity. Alafair Burke

Best You Together Lie People Crime Think Harmless Lying Secrets Put Calamity May Them Novels Based Keeping

'Calamity Jane' inspired me to be a performer. I still want to be her. Gayle Rankin

Me Inspired Calamity Performer Still Want Jane Her

True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity. Greg Gutfeld

Politics Rest Country Community Liberals Extremely Divided True Calamity Over Because Left Loud Personal Prefer Us Therefore Right

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

Threatens Disturbed More Calamity Than Which Us

Whenever there was a show like 'Calamity Jane,' me and my siblings would be plonked on stage in a costume because it was easier to have us in it rather than sort out babysitters. Katherine Kelly

Me Stage Easier Out Would Would-Be Rather Costume Calamity Like Sort Because Than Whenever Jane Us Show Sibling

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. Mark Zandi

Today Great Problem Financial Made Recession Too Market Way Broader Bad Followed Bubble Mortgage Calamity Economy Particularly Tight Housing Housing Market Contrast Get Paved Creating Hard Credit Millions Loans

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity. Philip Massinger

Valiant Dares Bears He Calamity Die Boldly

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. Publilius Syrus

You See Calamity Learn Another Which Should Avoid Ills

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers. Richard Curtis

Emotions Anxiety Those Has-Been Spirits Restricted Uncertainty Calamity Course Real Been Effect Depressed Among Publishers

Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity. Rick Santorum

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