Earthquakes Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Risk, Trying, World

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• The Devil's methods of opposition are those of alliance and antagonism, and the only serious one is the first. Let us beware of it. Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ. Antagonism is the creation of force for the kingdom of God. Put a man in prison for Christ's sake, and the earthquake will surely follow, and the work will spread.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Loyalty, Jesus, Men

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• Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

  Voltaire

  Political, Politics, Littles

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• Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Sports, Golf, Play

  1990 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

  Ben Bernanke

  Depression, Want, Study

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Money, War

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• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Stories, Want, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Regret, Men, Interesting

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

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• For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Fire, Light

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

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• God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  God, Uncles, Nice

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• 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

  Stars, Ocean, Son

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• When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Love, Romantic, Marriage

  "Fictional character: Iannis". "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• 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

  Hero, Men, Thinking

  Lillian Hellman (1944). “The Searching Wind: A Play in Two Acts”, New York : The Viking Press

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• If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Energy, Introducing, Quantity

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• The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Science, Names, Justice

  "Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1" (p. 6), 1980.

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• Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  World, Haiti, Littles

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• People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Japan, People, Age

  "TalkAsia" with Anna Coren, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2011.

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• Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

  Karl Kraus

  Stupid, Force, Elementals

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• 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

  Growing Up, Feelings, Possibility

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.

  Gore Vidal

  Hate, Men, Sky

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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• Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

  Annie Besant

  Religious, Soul, Intellectual

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• 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

  Government, Way, Surprise

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• 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

  Change, Europe, Upheaval

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• 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

  Jobs, Loss, Talking

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• 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

  Grateful, Japan, Community

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