Best Earthquakes Sayings

224 Earthquakes quotes by 191 unique authors

Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on… — Adam Garfinkle
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and… — Harry Seidler
Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth… — Harry Seidler
The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss… — Stephen F. Lynch
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity. — Charles Francis Richter
In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try… — Charles Francis Richter
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact,… — Charles Francis Richter
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes — Charles Francis Richter
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of… — Charles Lyell
Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly… — Robert Hooke
The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World… — Naoto Kan
Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers — Oprah Winfrey
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree… — Carl Jung
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement… — Bill Condon
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.… — Carl Jung
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a… — Josiah Strong
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it… — Ambrose Bierce
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will… — Leo Tolstoy
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
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
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
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt
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
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. — Louis de Bernieres

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