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  • 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
  • Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. -- Gordon Brown
  • You'll never be just anything. A tsunami can never be just a wave (...) Waves are banal. Tsunamis reshape the Earth -- Karen Marie Moning
  • From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. -- Dan Rather
  • 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
  • Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success -- Robin Sharma
  • But this plan of yous!' Tawaret shuddered, causing a tsunami of jiggling hippo flesh. -- Rick Riordan
  • Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
  • I'd turn and run but I'm anchored by two dudes that could hold the Titanic during a tsunami. -- Karen Marie Moning
  • I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly. -- Terry Gilliam
  • If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy. -- Jodi Picoult
  • For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it. -- Ruby Wax
  • 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
  • The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened. -- Kelly Jones
  • With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer. -- Ann Coulter
  • We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami -- Mary Landrieu
  • Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid. -- Cat Cora
  • I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake. -- William J. Clinton
  • We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami. -- Kevin B. Rollins
  • It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive. -- Mark Levin
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  • What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing. -- Paul Ryan
  • What do Japanese Jews love to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami. -- Gilbert Gottfried
  • The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow. -- Sandra Cisneros
  • Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she's demanding that we invade 'Tsunami.' -- Bill Maher
  • I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference. -- Alanis Morissette
  • When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground. -- William J. Clinton
  • Did you hear this - Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she's demanding that we invade Tsunami. I mean she said, These Tsunamians will not get away with this. Oh speaking of dumb twats, did you... -- Bill Maher
  • People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages. -- Hayao Miyazaki
  • Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit. -- Connie Sellecca
  • Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes. -- Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
  • Although many people in Aceh are still poor and vulnerable, the province resembles nothing like the place I saw the day after the tsunami hit. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
  • 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
  • In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami. -- Iveta Radicova
  • Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney? -- Dick Cavett
  • A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.' -- Lester Holt
  • Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city. -- Sarah Hall
  • Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. -- Zygmunt Bauman
  • First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images. -- Bruce Jackson
  • With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami. -- Connie Sellecca
  • Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past. -- Junichiro Koizumi
  • Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required. -- Bill Dedman
  • We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami. -- Mary Landrieu
  • Baby girl, Cross is a tsunami. -- Sylvia Day
  • The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness -- Kengo Kuma
  • Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear. -- Bethany Hamilton
  • Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977. -- Pete Townshend
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  • In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim. -- Linton Weeks
  • Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger. -- Colin Farrell
  • You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines. -- S.A. Tawks
  • There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study. -- Ovadia Yosef
  • I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more -- Bill Vaughan
  • With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased. -- Noam Chomsky
  • There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami. -- David Nabarro
  • In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us withfloaties and teach us how to swim." -- Linton Weeks, Washington Post, Jan.13, 2001. -- Linton Weeks
  • I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami. -- Charlie Sheen
  • What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen. -- Bruce Jackson
  • 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 the tsunami in Japan, we were open for business. In fact, I flew there 10 days after the tsunami to show our support for the Japanese people. -- Jamie Dimon
  • This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert. -- Naoto Kan
  • Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions? -- Mickey Kaus
  • The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world. -- Arun Manilal Gandhi
  • Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble. -- Howard Rheingold
  • It can happen like that. It can build slowly. It can come like a gentle rainfall, or it can slam into you like a tsunami. You are my tsunami, love. -- Lora Leigh
  • 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
  • After surviving the tsunami in Sri Lanka and facing that moment where I was not sure if I would live to see the next, I learned all that matters is now. -- Rosie Fellner
  • If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are. -- Lloyd Blankfein
  • [In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images. -- Sam Abell
  • Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it. -- Peter Diamandis
  • The customer demands simplicity, that organizations organize around them. Easy to use is a customer tsunami ripping across the world. Ease of use and simplicity must now be at the heart of organizational strategy. -- Gerry McGovern
  • The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to. -- Chesley Sullenberger
  • A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is -- George Alagiah
  • Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is - is threatening their very families. -- John Kasich
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