Earthquakes Quotes
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For when the cycle of violence escapes its confines in hell, it causes earthquakes, floods, and other calamities.
— Yangsze Choo
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
— John Muir
The mandate is clear, God's nature must be reflected on the earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.
— William Bernhardt
Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers
— Oprah Winfrey
God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.
— Oswald Chambers
My base will show up in earthquakes.
— Todd Akin
It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.
— Sonny Bono
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
— Biz Stone
We were barely moving, barely swaying, but under my skin, there were earthquakes, tidal waves. Solar flairs.
— Sarah Fine
Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas ... and improve the roads.
— Bill Maher
Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girls mouth!
— Gemma Halliday
Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.
— Andy Borowitz
Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.
— Rick Riordan
A native of America who cannot read or write is ... as rare as a comet or an earthquake.
— John Adams
Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that's what it is, one after the other.
— Elizabeth Berg
Southern Californians freak out when it rains, yet when there's an earthquake they're like 'pass the salt.
— Gregor Collins
After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.
— Peter Vecsey
I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods ... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.
— Gary Locke
The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my foot.
— Jack Benny
Madness, it became convenient to believe quite early on, came with the territory, on the order of earthquakes.
— Joan Didion
Earthquakes were extremely uncommon in this area. A dragon and a unicorn playing tag wasn't.
— Robert Asprin
Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes.
— Demetri Martin
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
You might be a redneck if ... the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection.
— Jeff Foxworthy
Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?
— Claire Danes
Don't you know
That lovers make the rains,
Call forth the sun,
Re-route hurricanes,
And exorcise earthquakes for fun. — James Kavanaugh
That lovers make the rains,
Call forth the sun,
Re-route hurricanes,
And exorcise earthquakes for fun. — James Kavanaugh
nightmares of earthquakes, and
— Jean M. Auel
EARTHQUAKES DON'T KILL PEOPLE, BUILDINGS DO THE
— Roger Musson
I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.
— Charles Francis Richter
Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.
— Sheila Ballantyne
A planet with no mountains, no storms and no earthquakes will create a planet of weak people!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is not the tempest, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but the still small voice of the Spirit that carries on the glorious work of saving souls.
— Robert M
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
— John Muir
The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent.
— Leigh Bardugo
Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late.
— Haruki Murakami
A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is
— George Alagiah
Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
— Patricia Riggen
There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
— Ban Ki-moon
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 street.
— Charles Bukowski
Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars.
— Orhan Pamuk
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
— Charles Kuralt
Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.
— Dana Gould
If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
— Hayao Miyazaki
It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about.
— Reggie Fils-Aime
I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.
— Wesley Strick
The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.
— Loren Acton
Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.
— Lemony Snicket
I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
— Keith Moon
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
— Lillian Hellman
If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.
— Groucho Marx
I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
— Robert Barron
After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.
— Dorothy Thompson
An earthquake is such fun when it is over.
— George Orwell
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
— Charles Francis Richter
My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.
— Madeline Miller
Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes
— Dale Carnegie
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
— Ben Bernanke
Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.
— Ilona Andrews
But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.
— Michelle Richmond
All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.
— Erma Bombeck
Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.
— Claud Cockburn
As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.
— Bertrand Russell
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
— Voltaire
All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake ... will be felt right up to the White House.
— Abol-Ghasem Kashani
..If you work with a jackhammer during an earthquake, stop, otherwise you are working for nothing.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All those journeys, those countries where they had monsoons, earthquakes, amoebas and virgin forests, had lost their charm for me.
— Patrick Modiano
When that hit the fan ... it was like an earthquake.
— Bill Ballance
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 War II.
— Naoto Kan
Two magnitude 9+ earthquakes this century both altered the length of the day by a tiny fraction of a second.
— Randall Munroe
Floods, fires, earthquakes, disease, starvation, betrayal, isolation, murder.
What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. — Rick Yancey
What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. — Rick Yancey
The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
— Dan Gilroy