Best Earthquakes Thoughts
224 Earthquakes quotes by 191 unique authors
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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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Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We…
— Haruki Murakami
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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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All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world
— Aristotle
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The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.
— George Carlin
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Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity,…
— Paulo Coelho
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I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me…
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
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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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Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to…
— H.G. Wells
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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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There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness…
— Leo Buscaglia
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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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I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed…
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
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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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Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.
— Haruki Murakami
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