Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.
Quotes about befallen (13 Quotes)
Her father was about to have a heart attack, and my memories of her are now tinged with a blue wash of misfortune that hadn't quite befallen her at the time. She was standing bare-legged in the jungly weeds that grew up between our houses. Her skin was already beginning to react to the grass cuttings stuck to the ball, whose sogginess was suddenly explained by the overweight Labrador who now limped into view.
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
Let us not forget the great tragedy that has befallen this nation, ... restoring the public confidence that this marketplace will be up and functioning.
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
It's hugely important - it doesn't just set the tone and atmosphere, but it also ties directly into the game mechanics giving the player a better understanding of each faction and how they play. The story follows the apocalypse that has befallen Earth and provides the player with a greater understanding of the motivations behind each of the game's three factions, the origins of the technology for each side and the reasons behind the conflict.
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.
Knowing what you'll do if your home doesn't sell quickly should calm your nerves and let you concentrate on whatever crisis has befallen you.
We are greatly saddened by the news that such a terrible tragedy has befallen this bus full of children, ... Our sympathies go out to the victims and their families.
The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the criticalreview system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors bookshops tend not to sell them publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.
We have learned with grief and sadness the news of the disaster that has befallen the Muslim people of Pakistan in the wake of the earthquake that hit Pakistan and Afghanistan,
A wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own wife, base words spoken by others, and disgrace that has befallen him.
When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking, And the earth brings forth her burdens, And man says What has befallen her On that day she shall tell her news, Because your Lord had inspired her.