Best Earthquake Sayings
178 Earthquake quotes by 155 unique authors
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Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory…
— Kenneth Waltz
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The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of…
— Ai Weiwei
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Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting…
— William Bernhardt
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Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.
— William Bernhardt
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
— Louis de Bernieres
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Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.
— Andy Borowitz
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Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I invite you to…
— Pope Francis
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During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow.…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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You might be a redneck if...the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection.
— Jeff Foxworthy
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Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. ...Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about…
— Deepak Chopra
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Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist…
— Peter Tosh
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I…
— Warren Rudman
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The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do.…
— Geneen Roth
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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear…
— Ann Coulter
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A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like…
— Charles Darwin
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond…
— Russ Carnahan
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Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he…
— Arthur Miller
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On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid…
— Masaharu Morimoto
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I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I…
— Meshell Ndegeocello
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