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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. -- Ambrose Bierce
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. -- Ambrose Bierce
Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.'s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable. -- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Crises are challenges, not calamities. -- Guy Verhofstadt
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? -- Mario Cuomo
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. -- Beilby Porteus
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? -- Virgil
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. -- Horace
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. -- Aristotle
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. -- Pietro Aretino
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis. -- Margaret Chan
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man! -- Jules Verne
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens. -- John Coleman
As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible, to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. -- Albert Schweitzer
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known. -- George Will
It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There's no reason they couldn't likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, natural and manmade. -- Henry Petroski
Bear calamities with meekness. -- Euripides
Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities. -- Voltaire
Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities. -- Oliver Goldsmith
He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over. -- Og Mandino
By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities. -- Livy
the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation -- Sun Tzu
What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it. -- Al-Tabarani
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them. -- Suzanne Curchod
Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance. -- George Will
A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life. -- Sidney Sheldon
If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. -- Swami Satchidananda
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater. -- Boyle Roche
You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. -- Seneca the Younger
And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after. -- Jean Ferris
Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them. -- Edward Gibbon
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. -- John Dryden
...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with. -- Lisa Kleypas
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages. -- Samuel Johnson
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place. -- Ernest Bramah
Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide. -- Alice Glass
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. -- Thomas Jefferson
If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man. -- Henry Mackenzie
One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie. -- Leo Tolstoy
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have. -- Thomas Brooks
Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout. -- Sun Tzu
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever. -- Dorothea Dix
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.... -- Jeremy Taylor
I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them. -- William Graham Sumner
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. -- Henry Miller

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