Crises are challenges, not calamities.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, des...
Charisma without character is postponed calamity.
To me, self-description is a calamity.
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. 'They're closed for business even though, somewhat confusingly, their doors open at ele...
the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
I shall not be afraid of a calamity. God is my defender.
