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 . . . CALAMITIES see "UNHAPPINESS" for related links Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. --Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that,I suppose, would be a calamity. --Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880]. (When asked to distinguish between a misfortune and a calamity.) There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. 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. --Sir Walter Scott (1771—1832) Scottish novelist and poet.  . . see "PLACES" for related links California's a wonderful place to live — if you happen to be an orange. --attributed to Fred Allen (1894—1956) American humorist. - It's a scientific fact that for every year you live in California, you lose two points off your I.Q. It's redundant to die in L.A. --Truman Capote (1924—1984) American writer and novelist. [1975] In California, everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist. --Truman Capote (1924—1984) American writer and novelist. - - California: bordering always on the Pacific and sometimes on the ridiculous. So, why do I live here? Because the sun goes down a block from my house. --George Carlin (1937—2008) American stand-up comedian and author. _Brain Droppings_, "Well, Ya Gotta Live Someplace" - Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. --Jimmy Carter (1924— ) American Democratic statesman, President [1977—1981]. Remark at a Cabinet meeting [21 March 1977], quoted in Robert Shogan _Promises to Keep: Carter's First 100 Days_ [1977]. Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. --Aldous Huxley (1894—1963) English novelist (grandson of T.H. Huxley.) On Los Angeles, in _Jesting Pilate_ [1926]. Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. --Ross MacDonald [Kenneth Millar] (1915—1983) American crime-fiction writer. Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look. --Henry Miller (1891—1980) American novelist and essayist. North American is tilted in such a way that everything loose slides to Southern California. --Donna Newton It is hereby earnestly proposed that the U.S.A. would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in the charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective. --Westbrook Pegler (1884—1969) American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and war correspondent. In the "New York World Telegram" [22 November 1938]. - If Carmel's founders should return, they could not afford to live there, but it wouldn't go that far. They would be instantly picked up as suspicious characters and deported over the city line. --John Ernst Steinbeck (1902—1968) American novelist. _Travels With Charley_ [1962] The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California. --John Ernst Steinbeck (1902—1968) American novelist. _Travels With Charley_ [1962] - California is a place where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. --Walter Winchell (1897—1972) American journalist. . . see: "HUBRIS" The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous. --Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld [née Aikin] (1743—1825) English poet. 'There's been an accident' they said, 'Your servant's cut in half; he's dead!' 'Indeed!' said Mr Jones, 'and please Send me the half that's got my keys, --Harry Graham (1874—1936) British writer and journalist. _Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes_ [1899] People like you are all scoundrels. I do not mind if a hundred have hanged themselves. --Henri IV [Henry of Naverre] (1553—1610) King of France [1589—1610]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 380. Cohan & Major explain: The king harshly rebuffs a petitioner, brother of a woman who has hanged herself and six young children, after being made destitute by the taille and forced to sell her cow. Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week. --Janis Joplin (1943—1970) American singer. _New Music Express_ [12 April 1969] (Said when ex-President Eisenhower's death prevented her photograph from appearing on the cover of Newsweek.)  CALM . . see: "MELLOW" see: "PEACE" see: "REST" see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links see "HAPPINESS" for other related links We build our personal world calm or wild according to what we want to live. We can weave utter peace in the midst of chaos. We can destroy in the midst of paradise. Depends on how we shape our spirit. --Richard Bach (1936— ) American writer. _Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit_ [1994] See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others. --Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. In _Master Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson_ (Selected by Benjamin S. Catchings), p. 82 [1907]. If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation. --attributed to Jean Kerr (1923—2003) American writer, [wife of Walter Kerr]. The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. --Alexander Woollcott (1887—1943) American dramatic and literary critic. ----- anodyne [AN-uh-dyn], adjective: 1. Serving to relieve pain; soothing. 2. Not likely to offend; bland; innocuous. 3. A medicine that relieves pain. 4. Anything that calms, comforts, or soothes disturbed feelings. assuage (uh-SWAYJ), verb: 1. To make milder or less severe; to reduce the intensity of; to ease; to relieve. 2. To appease; to satisfy. 3. To soothe or calm; to pacify. emollient (adj.) 1. Soothing to skin: softening or soothing, especially to the skin 2. Calming: trying to avoid anger and argument by using a calming manner (formal) noun Soothing substance: a substance that softens or soothes something, especially the skin equanimity (noun) [ee-kwuh-NIM-uh-tee], Evenness of mind; calmness; composure; as, "to bear misfortunes with equanimity." halcyon [HAL-see-uhn], noun: 1. A kingfisher. 2. A mythical bird, identified with the kingfisher, that was fabled to nest at sea about the time of the winter solstice and to calm the waves during incubation. limpid [LIM-pid], adjective: 1. Characterized by clearness or transparency; 2. Calm; untroubled; serene. 3. Clear in style; easily understandable. Synonyms: clear, crystalline, lucid, transparent. Ex.: Lying on the sand one limpid afternoon, Margarita-drowsed, gazing out at the turquoise water through half-closed eyes, following the seaweed swaying back and forth just beneath the surface, I fancied (as any self-respecting writer must do) that it would be my turn to write a book about Mexico some day. --Neil Baldwln, _Legends of the Plumed Serpent_ phlegmatic (adj.) Unexcitable: characterized by a lack of emotion or emotional display, and not easily worried, excited, or annoyed sang-froid, also sangfroid (n) [sang-FRWAH], Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness in trying circumstances; calmness. Ex.: The Treasury Secretary's sang-froid in moments of crisis. --"Keeping the Boom From Busting," _New York Times_, [19 July 1998] unflappable (adj.) 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