Best Earthquake Words
178 Earthquake quotes by 155 unique authors
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Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
— Sylvester Stallone
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We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake…
— Ellen Tauscher
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I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists…
— Olivia Wilde
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This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just…
— Miranda July
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I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your…
— Jean Webster
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Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people…
— Deb Caletti
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Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a…
— William Butler Yeats
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We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or…
— C.S. Lewis
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His…
— Katherine Dunn
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Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the…
— Charles Bukowski
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It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't…
— A A Milne
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Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen…
— Khalil Gibran
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Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains…
— Salman Rushdie
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The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.
— George Carlin
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They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the…
— Chris Cleave
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Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave…
— James Patterson
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Maybe we should have gone with him," he said, a few minutes after his friend was lost to sight. "Three of us would make four…
— John Flanagan
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A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape…
— Vera Nazarian
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Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Please know that your Father in Heaven loves you and so does His Only Begotten Son. When they speak to you--and They will--it will not…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits.…
— Amy Hempel
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I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not…
— John Muir
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