Quotes by Calamity No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations. Guru Nanak calamity sacred purity Crises are challenges, not calamities. Guy Verhofstadt calamity crisis challenges What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? H. G. Wells collapse calamity ifs The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.' Helen Keller calamity failing eye A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. Horace calamity host genius Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places. Jacques-Benigne Bossuet calamity wells ignorance We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. John Lancaster Spalding calamity disturbed For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity. John Templeton calamity bears opportunity There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war. Laozi engaging calamity war miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free. Lisa St. Aubin de Terán calamity paid miracle marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation. Marthe Bibesco calamity occupation The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for. Mark Twain prepared calamity He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over. Og Mandino calamity suffering worry Equanimity is calamity's medicine. Publilius Syrus calamity entrepreneur medicine The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. Publilius Syrus wickedness calamity Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity. Publilius Syrus calamity criminal-mind fortune These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger. Ralph Waldo Emerson calamity danger time There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress Ralph Waldo Emerson redress calamity right-words It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. Robert Bly calamity obsession humans Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Rohinton Mistry calamity essentials loss «123»