Quotes About Calamity

Whatever our particular calamity or adversity may be, we may be sure that our Father has a loving purpose in it.

Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

When I say we should never ask why, I am not talking about the reactive and spontaneous cry of anguish when calamity first befalls us or one we love. Rather, I am speaking of the persistent and demanding why that has an accusatory tone toward God in it.

if no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation.

I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

If a prince marries a foreign princess, one to the manner born, he is being snobbish and old-fashioned. If he chooses a Diana or a Fergie, glamorous outsiders, they may never adapt to the restrictions of being Royal, with calamitous results.

True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity.

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

The instantaneous shift from calm to calamity. The slowing of time. Every sense suddenly wire-taut and screaming.

By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stacked on plates, doughnuts lined up twelve deep all along the counter, and doughnuts still rolling down the little chute, just as regular as a clock can tick.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents-a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

In a manner of speaking,' he sighed. 'After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents – a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

In early July 1777, Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York fell to the British, prompting King George III to clap his hands and exclaim, "I have beat them! Beat all the Americans." It was a potential calamity for the patriots, since it opened a corridor for General John Burgoyne and his invading army from Canada to push south to New York City, slicing the rebel army in half and isolating New England—an overarching objective of British war policy.

Casi todos desean la paz y la libertad, pero son muy pocos los que tienen gran entusiasmo por las ideas, sentimientos y actos que hacen factibles esos ideales. Inversamente, casi nadie quiere la guerra o la tiranía, pero son muchos los que hallan un placer intenso en las ideas, sentimientos y actos que llevan a esas calamidades.

And how did this misfortune occur? inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation.

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

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.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

A circumstance occurred that renewed the misery, which, can now never quit me but in the grave, to which I look with no fearful apprehension, but as a refuge from calamity, trusting that the power who has seen good to afflict me, will pardon the imperfectness of my devotion, and the too frequent wandering of my thoughts to the object once so dear to me.

An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.