Public calamity is a mighty leveler (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. (Quote by - Roger Estrange)

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

Calamity Clegg title of a briefing note from his team. (Quote by - Chris Huhne)

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

Crises are challenges, not calamities. (Quote by - Guy Verhofstadt)

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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

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. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)

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

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more, (Quote by - Gen Musharraf)

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? (Quote by - George Eliot)