Earthquakes Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Air, Survivor, Rust

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• 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

  California, Nuclear, Faults

  "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• 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

  War, Years, Nuclear

  "Japan's Worst Crisis Since WWII". bigthink.com.

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• This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

  Mark Twain

  Views, Atheism, Exposed

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• My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.

  Madeline Miller

  Mind, Wish, Eruption

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.278, A&C Black

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• Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Giving, Mutiny

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.114, Routledge

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• Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand

  Haruki Murakami

  Mysterious Things, Feet, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 02, 2015

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• Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.

  Dana Gould

  Children, Parent, Would Be

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• 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

  Impact, Volcanoes, Pigs

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Planning, Californians, Happens

  Sheila Ballantyne (1988). “Life on Earth: Stories”, Simon & Schuster

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• 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

  Axes, Tilt, Reggae

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• The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do. We live or we die. Hell is what we do in the meantime. It is the ways we starve our souls as we prepare for the future that never comes as planned. The true disaster is living the life in your mind and missing the one in front of you.

  Geneen Roth

  Live Life, Missing, Soul

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• 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

  Eugenics, Volcanoes, Climate

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• You might be a redneck if...the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Loss, Redneck, Records

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• Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.

  Joel Achenbach

  Disappointment, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Lonely, Appreciation, Greatness

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1494, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Health, Issues, Priorities

  "Voodou Priests And Doctors Are On The Frontline Of Haiti’s Mental Health Care" by Anastasia Moloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2015.

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• 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

  Men, Revolution, World

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• An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

  George Orwell

  Fun

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.

  Rick Riordan

  Congratulations, Snakes, Listening

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Mind, Age, Upheaval

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• Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

  John Wesley

  Causes, Sin, Natural

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• 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

  Sight, Secret, Ceremony

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.164, Penguin

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• If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.

  Andy Weir

  Blood, Cities, Giving

  "Fictional character: Mark Watney". "The Martian", www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Political, Upheaval, Planes

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