Earthquakes Quotes - Page 4

• When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Sick, Helping, Homeless

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• [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

  Nature, Science, Suggestions

  " Earthquake Information Bulletin, Volumes 12-13" (p. 6), 1980.

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• 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

  Issues, Life And Death, Doe

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Fire, Voice, Stills

  Dorothy Thompson (1939). “Let the record speak”, Houghton Mifflin

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• 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

  Crazy, Thinking, Oil

  "Debbie Harry: 'I'm sort of a cult figure'". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2011.

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• So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.

  Bill Gates

  Feet, Your Side, Judging

  "Bill Gates’ Plutonium Pipe Dream: Convert Mountains of Depleted Uranium at Paducah to Power Earth for Centuries". "EnviroNews DC News Bureau" with Josh Cunnings, www.environews.tv. March 14, 2016.

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• I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I invite you to pray for that dear nation, which in recent days has suffered different calamities.

  Pope Francis

  Strong, People, Different

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• 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

  Sex, Men, Epidemics

  Quoted in Maxim Gorky, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1920)

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• Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl's mouth!

  Gemma Halliday

  Girl, Cheating, Fall

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• Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes.

  Demetri Martin

  Wind, Chimes

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• Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Warrior, Greatness, Done

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• The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'. 'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Dark, Black And White, Sky

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.133, Penguin Books India

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• We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural disasters or “acts of God.”  But now, we have joined God, powerful enough to influence these events.

  David Suzuki

  Powerful, Fire, Long Ago

  David Suzuki (2014). “The David Suzuki Reader, 2nd Edition: A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker”, p.55, Greystone Books Ltd

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• Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

  Kenneth Waltz

  War, Acceptance, San Francisco

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.1, Columbia University Press

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• Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.

  William Bernhardt

  San Francisco, Personality, Shining

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• Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a tremble, a breath. Music begins with a vibration . . . And God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a thought.

  Lauren Oliver

  Cities, Atoms, Movement

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• There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ideas, Two, Kind

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• 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

  Records, Vibrations, Facts

  Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1980.

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• 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

  Wind, May, Causes

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• 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

  Stubbornness, Come Up, Hard

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• 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

  Broken Heart, Moving, Events

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• Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.

  Bill Maher

  Building, Scientist, Coastal

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• 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

  Basketball, Lasts, Los Angeles

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• 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

  Lines, Faults, Said

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• It is a very important film, Life And Nothing More, in that what was filmed was inspired by a journey I had made just three days after an earthquake. And I speak not only of the film itself but also of the experience of being in that place, where only three days before 50,000 people had died.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Journey, People, Important

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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