You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
quote by Mario Cuomo
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The calamities
The calamities
Calamities are the beasts of prey,
They hide couching along the route of life,
And pounce on the each passerby,
When he enters into their hunting range,
Who knows who becomes the victim,
And where they prey upon him,
With the nailed paws and tearing jaws.
poem by Shahida Latif
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Crises are challenges, not calamities.
quote by Guy Verhofstadt
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He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
quote by Beilby Porteus
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What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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(V – 2010) Laiku 165
Greed:
Feeds one with pleasures ephemeral
And leads to calamities too critical.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Calamities?
Calamities?
Yes.
Fried without the shells.
Leave the bellies,
And bring lots of tartar!
Also a dip for the chips, please!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Suicide In The Village
Ah the drum sound,
The owl takes to flight.
Far away from civilization,
The deadly cult sound.
Bring to me the laborers tool,
Brig to me the drunkard's bottle.
Let appease the wrath of the gods,
No abomination has been cause.
There lies the disgraceful child,
From the womb of a holy mother.
Butchered to pieces in his own greed,
Lifeless leaflet, bring to me the drunkards bottle
Let appease the gods,
Distasteful wind of the night,
Send our plight to the gods,
Hence no calamities shall befall.
Bring to me the drunkards bottle,
Oh asaase efua.
Let not our feet be soiled,
From the fury of your wrath.
Bring to me the drunkards bottle,
Oh otwediapon nyame
Hear our pitiful soul cry out,
Let not your wrath, thunder us to death.
Ah, I say bring to me the drunkards bottle,
Oh, hmm bring to me the laborers tool.
This night has been defiled,
Let not our calamities see daylight.
poem by Samuel Donkor
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Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.
quote by Jeremy Taylor
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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
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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.
quote by Pietro Aretino
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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.
quote by Albert Schweitzer
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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.
quote by John Coleman
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A Sparkling Diamond
in some realms there is no pain
and no sufferings and no calamities
of any kind; you live as if you are peace itself
wealth is not money but the sacred lamp
you hold over yourself; to show how many
layers of insecurities you have shed to enable
your true self come through; a multi faceted
sparkling diamond that has come alive
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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I am floored down..!
I am floored down
By the persistent stings
Of small small worries!
Even the smallest worry waves
Erode my banks of rollicking spirits!
But-
Mammoth calamities
In vice-like grip shake you
With cyclonic furies !
However...
Your silence
Never gets shaken
Nor uprooted!
O. tell me-
How deep are your Roots !
poem by Sundaram Chandrakalaadhar
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That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
quote by Laurie E. Colwin
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