The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
From behind the shadow of the still small voice — more awful than tempest or earthquake — more sure and persistent than… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We believe our suppliers of materials have not been impacted. At this point, our customers have not asked us to do anything… — Paul Otellini Copy Share Image
I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The first few songs of the album 'Little Earthquakes' were unlike anything I'd ever heard. — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake,… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people,… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
TV commercials make parenting look like there are going to be good days and bad days - like, it'll be this gentle… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable. — Howard Ruff Copy Share Image
