A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.
John Coleman

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce

Crises are challenges, not calamities.
Guy Verhofstadt

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
Beilby Porteus

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
Virgil

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
Mario Cuomo