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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. -- Voltaire
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe. -- Earl Blumenauer
There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help. -- Jan Schakowsky
Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes -- Dale Carnegie
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Earthquakes were extremely uncommon in this area. A dragon and a unicorn playing tag wasn't. -- Robert Asprin
Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant. -- Dana Gould
Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl's mouth! -- Gemma Halliday
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
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears. -- Hal Sparks
Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway. -- Epicurus
Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them. -- Reginald Aldworth Daly
The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments. -- William S. Burroughs
How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.Horror tore this world asunder.While inside the bleeding smokeand beyond the shredded weeping fleshwe memorized tales of infinite good.--from The History Lesson -- Aberjhani
How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson -- Aberjhani
My base will show up in earthquakes. -- Todd Akin
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake. -- Alyssa Milano
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. -- Sylvester Stallone
I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake. -- Dan Quayle
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. -- Karl Kraus
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. -- Ludwig von Mises
People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages. -- Hayao Miyazaki
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin
Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before. -- Joe Morgan
In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house -- I should run into it. -- Tony Danza
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression. -- Ben Bernanke
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. -- Ignazio Silone
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism. -- Ban Ki-moon
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. -- Phil Donahue
I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance. -- Charles Francis Richter
It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza. -- Richard Reeves
Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors. -- Harry Seidler
Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors. -- Harry Seidler
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
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
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end. -- Bear Grylls
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
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
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
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses. -- Paul Stamets
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. -- Harry Seidler
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
Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake? -- Russ Carnahan
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those. -- Bill Condon
It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. -- David Suzuki
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them. -- Peter Kreeft
The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war. -- Elaine Pagels
Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons. -- Martin Rees
The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake. -- Stephen F. Lynch
Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against danger with building codes and levees, and by setting aside money to clean up afterwards. -- Seth Shostak
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. -- Warren Rudman
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 remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I mean the streets were just - people were crashing into each other, people were looting, in just a very short amount of time. -- Rory Cochrane
If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.' -- Adam Hamilton
It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There's no reason they couldn't likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, natural and manmade. -- Henry Petroski
We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again. -- Nathan Wolfe
If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface, and that could be causing earthquakes. It's like we're giving the earth arthritis. I don't know if that sounds crazy. -- Debbie Harry
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes -- Charles Francis Richter
I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings. -- Shigeru Ban
Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes. -- John Wesley
My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation. -- Tim Allen
Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars. -- Orhan Pamuk
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. -- Ilona Andrews
My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. -- Madeline Miller
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods. -- Haruki Murakami
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes. -- Lillian Hellman
There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest. -- John Muir
Don't you know That lovers make the rains, Call forth the sun, Re-route hurricanes, And exorcise earthquakes for fun. -- James Kavanaugh
As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them. -- Bertrand Russell
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
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
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
Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason. -- Daniel Handler
It seems to be in fashion among Russian politicians to blame Berezovsky for everything. Soon they'll be holding him responsible for global warming, earthquakes and tsunamis. -- Alexander Lebedev
Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves -- William Cohen
It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes. -- Voltaire
Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled... -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better. -- John Maynard Keynes
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do. -- Lillian Hellman
Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us. -- Dean Koontz
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom. -- Leo Tolstoy
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom. -- Leo Tolstoy
What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. -- Charles Francis Richter
I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad. -- W. C. Fields

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