Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. - Ambrose Bierce
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. - Joseph Addison
The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people. - Sunday Adelaja
God through Prophet Hosea is explaining to us reasons for destructions, calamities, failures and devastations among the people of God. That reason is not seen in demonic activities nor is it seen in prevailing economic situations of the land - Sunday Adelaja
If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities. - Anonymous
...I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters,... - Daniel Defoe
What's friendship's realest measure?I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups. - Richard Ford