Best Volcanoes Quotes
88 Volcanoes quotes by 81 unique authors
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The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a…
— Gustav Stresemann
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Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's…
— Xiang Yu
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Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge…
— Jon Pareles
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The attitude of the average Christian today is relax and be raptured. But He is coming... and when God gets angry you´ve no idea what…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.
— John Raese
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In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have…
— Lev Grossman
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One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really…
— Jan de Bont
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Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
— George Sand
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As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Simplicity of living gives you sensitivity of character. A lot of people told me that leaving L.A. and moving to Volcano (district of the Big…
— Jason Scott Lee
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We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid…
— Carl Sagan
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[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.
— Empedocles
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
— Agnes Smedley
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So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to…
— Phillip Noyce
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First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration…
— James Dwight Dana
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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to throw…
— Empedocles
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Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on…
— John Steinbeck
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Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark…
— Mary Virginia Terhune
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Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we…
— Tom Robbins
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The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its…
— Corey Ford
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What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.
— Charles Lindbergh
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