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People just don’t seem to understand the scale of the calamity that very well could happen in one generation here, we’re talking about a very short amount of time. – Ryan Swapp	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Today has truly been a day which gives us great hope, i think the message from the world is clear: the world will stand by those who go through any national calamity. – Hina Rabbani Khar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Rather than championing shutdowns, she’s spent much of her energy, both in public and behind the scenes, trying to get schools open. And she’s been trying, sometimes uncomfortably, to act as a mediator between desperate parents grieving their kids’ interrupted educations and beleaguered teachers who feel they’re being blamed for a calamity they didn’t create. – New York	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This inconceivable calamity is undoubtedly a devastating blow to Columbia High School students, staff and community, we have activated our emergency protocols to provide mental health support for Columbia High School, Maplewood Middle and Clinton Elementary. – Ronald Taylor	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The unfair targeting of MericaWear has proven to be an economic calamity. – Andrew Arnold	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Basically, the bottom line is this : when there's a storm warning, there's some data that suggests that the rate of pregnancies increase, but actually when destruction happens, like a tsunami, then actually your births go down, so there's a difference in what the impact on society is of any natural calamity or a pandemic -- and the forecast suggests that this is much more serious than a tropical storm. It's a tsunami. – Rahul Gupta	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's tough to call the jobs report, which is what everybody was waiting for, anything but a complete calamity, but relative to expectations you can see some silver linings in there, except for the initial panic in the month of March, in general the markets are ignoring economic data for the most part and are looking more at data related to COVID-19. – Brian Nick	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I look forward to discussing what the United States can do to avoid a strategic calamity with my Senate colleagues and with senior administration officials when the Senate returns to Washington this week. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I look forward to discussing what The United States of America can do to avoid a strategic calamity with my Republican Senate colleagues and with senior administration officials when the Republican Senate returns to Washington this week. – The South Carolina Republican	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is the next significant miscalculation. The next will be barring certain candidates from running in District Council elections. Both will nicely inflame tensions and increase protests and actions, as that happens, the prospects for the third pending calamity will rise exponentially, postponement of District Council elections. Then it will descend into sustained chaos. – Philip Hynes	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
All these actors appear to bear some responsibility for this calamity. All seem to have a share of Mr. Epsteins blood on their hands. All should be ashamed of their behavior, i call for a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mr. Epsteins death. The public needs to know exactly what happened and why and how his custodians could have let it occur. Epsteinsdeath comes two weeks after the 66-year-old was placed on suicide watch after he was found nearly unconscious in his cell with injuries to his neck.At the time, it was not clear whether the injuries were self-inflicted or from an assault. He had been taken off suicide watch before he killed himself, a person familiar with the matter told the AP.It wasnt immediately clear when he was taken off suicide watch. Jeffrey Epstein DEAD : TIMELINE OF SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AND RELATED LEGAL CASES Epstein was arrested on July 6 over the alleged sexual abuse of dozens of young girls in his Upper East Side townhouse and his waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, between 2002 and 2005 Epstein allegedly created and maintained a vast network and operation from 2002 up to and including at least 2005 that enabled him to sexually exploit and abuse dozens of underage girls in addition to paying victims to recruit other girls. Prosecutors said that victims would be escorted to a room with a massage table where they would perform massages on Epstein. At the time of Epsteins arrest, prosecutors said they found a trove of pictures of nude and seminude young women and girls at his $ 77 million Manhattan Hospital mansion. They also say additional victims have come forward since the arrest. He had pleaded not guilty and faced up to 45 years in prison if convicted. Jeffrey Epstein EPSTEINS ALLEGED SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIM NAMED Bill Richardson, GEORGE MITCHELL IN NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENTS Bill Richardson deathalso comes a day after thousands of documents were unsealed Friday in connection with a defamation case against Bill Richardson alleged recruiter that revealed dozens of high-profile names including former Maine Sen. George Mitchell, ex-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Prince Andrew, Duke of York. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has long claimed Epstein forced her to have sex with powerful men, claimed in the lawsuit that Epstein and Virginia Roberts Giuffre associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, kept Ghislaine Maxwell as a. – Marc Fernich	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Our partners in the EU need to be at their pragmatic best in helping to avoid the mutual calamity of no deal; and you – and we – need to carry on explaining the implications of a no deal exit, no matter who cries 'Project Fear'. – Philip Hammond	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Every policy she touches only produces more calamity, in this case, it means higher prices, fewer choices and less control over one’s most private medical decisions. – Stephen Miller	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I can't bear any further loss should another calamity strike. – Imtiyaz Ahmad	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
How could anybody do this? it's not war. It's not drought. It's not natural calamity. It's torture. – Manjula Sharma	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls. – Oswald Chambers	added by anonymous 9 years ago
There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war. – Laozi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls. – Oswald Chambers	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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. – Harry Emerson Fosdick	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time. – Colette	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Calamity is virtue's opportunity. – Seneca the Younger	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. motivational quotes – Aeschylus	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls. – The Hitopadesa	added by anonymous 12 years ago
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is not greater disaster than greed. – Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu	added by anonymous 13 years ago

People just don’t seem to understand the scale of the calamity that very well could happen in one generation here, we’re talking about a very short amount of time.

– Ryan Swapp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today has truly been a day which gives us great hope, i think the message from the world is clear: the world will stand by those who go through any national calamity.

– Hina Rabbani Khar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Rather than championing shutdowns, she’s spent much of her energy, both in public and behind the scenes, trying to get schools open. And she’s been trying, sometimes uncomfortably, to act as a mediator between desperate parents grieving their kids’ interrupted educations and beleaguered teachers who feel they’re being blamed for a calamity they didn’t create.

– New York

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This inconceivable calamity is undoubtedly a devastating blow to Columbia High School students, staff and community, we have activated our emergency protocols to provide mental health support for Columbia High School, Maplewood Middle and Clinton Elementary.

– Ronald Taylor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The unfair targeting of MericaWear has proven to be an economic calamity.

– Andrew Arnold

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Basically, the bottom line is this : when there's a storm warning, there's some data that suggests that the rate of pregnancies increase, but actually when destruction happens, like a tsunami, then actually your births go down, so there's a difference in what the impact on society is of any natural calamity or a pandemic -- and the forecast suggests that this is much more serious than a tropical storm. It's a tsunami.

– Rahul Gupta

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's tough to call the jobs report, which is what everybody was waiting for, anything but a complete calamity, but relative to expectations you can see some silver linings in there, except for the initial panic in the month of March, in general the markets are ignoring economic data for the most part and are looking more at data related to COVID-19.

– Brian Nick

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I look forward to discussing what the United States can do to avoid a strategic calamity with my Senate colleagues and with senior administration officials when the Senate returns to Washington this week.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I look forward to discussing what The United States of America can do to avoid a strategic calamity with my Republican Senate colleagues and with senior administration officials when the Republican Senate returns to Washington this week.

– The South Carolina Republican

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is the next significant miscalculation. The next will be barring certain candidates from running in District Council elections. Both will nicely inflame tensions and increase protests and actions, as that happens, the prospects for the third pending calamity will rise exponentially, postponement of District Council elections. Then it will descend into sustained chaos.

– Philip Hynes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

All these actors appear to bear some responsibility for this calamity. All seem to have a share of Mr. Epsteins blood on their hands. All should be ashamed of their behavior, i call for a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mr. Epsteins death. The public needs to know exactly what happened and why and how his custodians could have let it occur. Epsteinsdeath comes two weeks after the 66-year-old was placed on suicide watch after he was found nearly unconscious in his cell with injuries to his neck.At the time, it was not clear whether the injuries were self-inflicted or from an assault. He had been taken off suicide watch before he killed himself, a person familiar with the matter told the AP.It wasnt immediately clear when he was taken off suicide watch. Jeffrey Epstein DEAD : TIMELINE OF SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AND RELATED LEGAL CASES Epstein was arrested on July 6 over the alleged sexual abuse of dozens of young girls in his Upper East Side townhouse and his waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, between 2002 and 2005 Epstein allegedly created and maintained a vast network and operation from 2002 up to and including at least 2005 that enabled him to sexually exploit and abuse dozens of underage girls in addition to paying victims to recruit other girls. Prosecutors said that victims would be escorted to a room with a massage table where they would perform massages on Epstein. At the time of Epsteins arrest, prosecutors said they found a trove of pictures of nude and seminude young women and girls at his $ 77 million Manhattan Hospital mansion. They also say additional victims have come forward since the arrest. He had pleaded not guilty and faced up to 45 years in prison if convicted. Jeffrey Epstein EPSTEINS ALLEGED SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIM NAMED Bill Richardson, GEORGE MITCHELL IN NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENTS Bill Richardson deathalso comes a day after thousands of documents were unsealed Friday in connection with a defamation case against Bill Richardson alleged recruiter that revealed dozens of high-profile names including former Maine Sen. George Mitchell, ex-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Prince Andrew, Duke of York. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has long claimed Epstein forced her to have sex with powerful men, claimed in the lawsuit that Epstein and Virginia Roberts Giuffre associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, kept Ghislaine Maxwell as a.

– Marc Fernich

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Our partners in the EU need to be at their pragmatic best in helping to avoid the mutual calamity of no deal; and you – and we – need to carry on explaining the implications of a no deal exit, no matter who cries 'Project Fear'.

– Philip Hammond

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Every policy she touches only produces more calamity, in this case, it means higher prices, fewer choices and less control over one’s most private medical decisions.

– Stephen Miller

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I can't bear any further loss should another calamity strike.

– Imtiyaz Ahmad

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

How could anybody do this? it's not war. It's not drought. It's not natural calamity. It's torture.

– Manjula Sharma

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

– Oswald Chambers

added by anonymous
9 years ago

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

– Laozi