Quake Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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Now, I testify it is a small voice. It whispers, not shouts. And so you must be very quiet inside. That is why you may…
— Henry B. Eyring
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Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone…
— Gaylene Preston
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When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off…
— William James
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So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the…
— John Fante
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What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors.…
— Oprah Winfrey
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There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty under-draws, who stand…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state…
— Naoto Kan
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We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of…
— Sasha Cagen
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Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re…
— Joseph Cook
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Let us quake before the great Spirit, Who is my God, Who has made me know God, Who is God there above, and Who forms…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground…
— Dave Barry
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The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives…
— Cameron Sinclair
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Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means…
— Stephen Russell
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Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a…
— Peter Gabriel
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival…
— Camille Paglia
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God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.
— Charles Stanley
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I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.
— Johnny Vegas
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Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
Who Wrote These Quake Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 29 Quake Quotes, led by these top contributors: