Calamity Quotes
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.
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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
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Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point.
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There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.
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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
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There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.
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The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.
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You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
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Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.
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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.
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Calamity was ordained for man.
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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
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For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
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Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.
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The stock actor is a stage calamity...
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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.
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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?
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When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
