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#calamity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #calamity




What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.


Earl Browder


#been #calamity #cold #cold war #consideration

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


#calamity #consequent #defended #equals #follows

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


Robert Bly


#calamity #great #human #human being #obsessions

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


#brightest #calamity #confusion #darkest #furnace

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.


Virgil


#endurance #every #overcome

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.


Hesiod


#bad #calamity #good #great #great advantage

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.


Bill Watterson


#live #made #make #mistakes #often

Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.


T.F. Hodge


#calamity #chaos #confusion #control #good-intentions

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.


Sydney Smith


#being #calamity #courage #everything #great

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


Publilius Syrus


#avoid #calamity #ills #learn #see






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