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  • I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be. -- Paul Watson
  • He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that. -- Nora Roberts
  • Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake. -- Jean Baudrillard
  • I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake. -- Alyssa Milano
  • Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. -- Karl Kraus
  • I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake. -- Dan Quayle
  • You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin
  • Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
  • In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water. -- Marcus Samuelsson
  • We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax. -- Samuel Goldwyn
  • Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be. -- Rebecca Solnit
  • It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. -- Frederick Douglass
  • There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? -- Lord Byron
  • 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, a full frequency of vibrations occurs. -- Charles Francis Richter
  • Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question I ask our staff is 'What is money-market-fund exposure?' -- Mary Schapiro
  • Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake. -- Bill Dedman
  • God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. -- William Lyon Phelps
  • Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
  • When the Haiti earthquake happened, I registered with UNICEF to set up an account, and posted to Twitter for people to donate to it. In a matter of a couple of hours, $30,000 had been donated. That, to me, was eye-opening. -- Misha Collins
  • We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that. -- James Balog
  • Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility. -- Karen Thompson Walker
  • I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans. -- Ellen Tauscher
  • Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. -- Paul Farmer
  • Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. -- Martin Jacques
  • I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. -- Jon Scieszka
  • I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life. -- Adam Hamilton
  • Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes. -- Demetri Martin
  • Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead. -- Claud Cockburn
  • We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I think we're like farm animals before an earthquake. -- Moby
  • An earthquake is such fun when it is over. -- George Orwell
  • When that hit the fan ... it was like an earthquake. -- Bill Ballance
  • After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice. -- Dorothy Thompson
  • Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe. -- Mike Mason
  • There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure. -- Moss Hart
  • It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. -- Lord Byron
  • War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. -- Louis de Bernieres
  • This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet. -- Mark Twain
  • God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is -- George Alagiah
  • The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store. -- George Carlin
  • Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen. -- Sheila Ballantyne
  • People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case. -- Al Michaels
  • Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads. -- Bill Maher
  • Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it. -- Biz Stone
  • In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house -- I should run into it. -- Tony Danza
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  • It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet. -- Charles Kuralt
  • It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable. -- Howard Ruff
  • If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity. -- Charles Francis Richter
  • Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. -- William Bernhardt
  • One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine. -- Mira Grant
  • I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness. -- Wesley Strick
  • The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity. -- Bryant McGill
  • Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water. -- Marcus Samuelsson
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  • Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it. -- Robert Barron
  • A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake. -- John Adams
  • All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House. -- Abol-Ghasem Kashani
  • An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. -- Ignazio Silone
  • Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it. -- Sorin Cerin
  • You might be a redneck if...the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers -- Oprah Winfrey
  • Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that. -- Andy Borowitz
  • The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. -- Bill Gates
  • A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident. -- Sonny Bono
  • The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake. -- Loren Acton
  • 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
  • In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies. -- Conrad Veidt
  • The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero. -- Nostradamus
  • Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. -- Phil Donahue
  • We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 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
  • We should be focused on the Haiti earthquake victims, not on what contracts your company should get, if you're a friend of Bill [Clinton]. -- Kellyanne Conway
  • 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
  • We are the fault line; if you don't deal with this fault line, you're going to have an earthquake, that's what we always said. -- Bashar al-Assad
  • The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. -- Helen Hunt
  • It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built. -- Bonnie Raitt
  • Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. ...Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that. -- Deepak Chopra
  • 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
  • This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films. -- Abbas Kiarostami
  • In contrast to New Orleans, there was only minimal looting after the horrendous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan-because, when you get down to it, Japanese aren't blacks. -- Steve Sailer
  • 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
  • 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
  • There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world. -- Daniel Webster
  • 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
  • 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
  • An earthquake strikes Haiti, and care packages from America are among the first to arrive - and not far behind are former Presidents Clinton and Bush. -- Mitt Romney
  • A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
  • 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 the spirit. -- Vera Nazarian
  • 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
  • Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again. -- Barbara Boxer
  • 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
  • [In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically. -- Charles Francis Richter
  • Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths. -- Stephen Covey
  • The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims. -- Jon Porter
  • We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything. -- Ashley Scott
  • 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 had an earthquake lately. -- A. A. Milne
  • We believe our suppliers of materials have not been impacted. At this point, our customers have not asked us to do anything differently as a result of the earthquake. -- Paul Otellini
  • Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair? -- John Adams
  • It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk. -- Anne Sexton
  • On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims. -- Masaharu Morimoto
  • My heart beats so hard, I feel like I have an earthquake inside of me. It's weighing me down and my hands shake with the need of safety and comfort. -- Karen Quan
  • For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake brought a lot of positive, populist, anti-institutional social change. -- Rebecca Solnit
  • 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 terrible upheaval, a social earthquake. -- Josiah Strong
  • 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 to get rid of them. -- Charles Francis Richter
  • Some areas near Dallas experienced a 3.5-magnitude earthquake, which some blame on fracking. However, scientists say that it was more likely aftershocks from Chris Christie celebrating at the Cowboys game. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out. -- Paul Walker
  • I kid Fox News, but they may be a little biased. We had an earthquake here on Monday, and they reported that 'the earth's crust was emboldened by Obama's weakness.' -- Bill Maher
  • Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon? -- Peter Tosh
  • Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere. The earthquake and the hurricanes, it has devastated Haiti. Bill Clinton and I have been involved in trying to help Haiti for many years. -- Hillary Clinton
  • 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 shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil -- William Butler Yeats
  • On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge. -- Lee Smolin
  • But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15,000 people] -- Voltaire
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