There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.
Peter Lombard

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
Frederick Leboyer

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
John Lancaster Spalding

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.
Earl Browder

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Virgil