Earthquakes Quotes
224 quotes by 195 authors
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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations…
— Annie Besant
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large…
— Earl Blumenauer
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the…
— Barbara Boxer
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or…
— James Buchan
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave…
— Lord Byron
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I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both…
— William J. Clinton
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I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive.…
— Isaac Asimov
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and…
— Frederick Douglass
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
— Lillian Hellman
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The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save…
— Kofi Annan
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Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There…
— Charles Francis Richter
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements…
— Mikhail Lomonosov
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Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed,…
— Richard Dixon Oldham
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The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the…
— Charles Francis Richter
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[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot…
— Charles Francis Richter
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It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in…
— Gerald Durrell
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Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really,…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have…
— Saint Augustine
Who Wrote These Earthquakes Quotes
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