Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

- Bill Watterson

I was a huge 'Deadwood' fan because I'm a huge David Milch fan, so I've always wanted to play something like Calamity Jane on 'Deadwood' and just be the biggest Western tomboy girl, ever.

- Emily Rose

To me, self-description is a calamity.

- Jasper Johns

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

- John Lancaster Spalding

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

- Publilius Syrus

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

- Robert Bly

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

- Samuel Johnson

Calamity is the test of integrity.

- Samuel Richardson

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

- Virgil