Quotes of: Calamity Keyword

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

Benjamin E. Mays

To ask is no sin, and to be refused is no calamity.

Russian

If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.

Anonymous

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

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How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

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The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.

Indian

One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.

Chinese

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Benjamin Disraeli

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

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I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.

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Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).

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Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still banging Charles after all these years —" "Like a screen in a tornado. Sure.

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Loving those who hate us means wantonly setting the stage and orchestrating the situation in a way that’s sure to result in a production of great personal calamity. But to not love them is an even greater calamity.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

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One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

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The most fortunate of us all in our journey through life frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which greatly afflict us. To fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and...

Thomas Jefferson

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

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No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in ou...

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...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to b...

Benjamin Elijah Mays