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178 Earthquake quotes by 155 unique authors

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. — Sylvester Stallone
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store. — George Carlin
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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