Earthquakes Quotes - Page 9

• All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

  Aristotle

  Warning, World, Too Much

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• Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Scratches, Return

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Breathing, Broken

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Horse, Animal, Buffalo

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, University of Georgia Press

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• Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.

  William Bernhardt

  San Francisco, Aftermath, Suspense

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• The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my foot.

  Jack Benny

  Hurt, Fall, Feet

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• 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

  Cancer, Japan, Nuclear

  "A Glowing Report on Radiation". humanevents.com. March 16, 2011.

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• Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Kings, New York, Cities

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• 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

  Survivor, Looks, Ends

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  Gary Hamel

  Yesterday, Valleys, Done

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• The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of young students lost their lives, and you could see bags and study material everywhere. Then you realize individual life, media, and the lives of the students are serving very different purposes. The lives of the students disappeared within the state propaganda, and very soon everybody will forget everything.

  Ai Weiwei

  School, Media, Forget Everything

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• Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.

  James Buchan

  Country, Jesus, Children

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• The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

  Helen Hunt

  Awards, Oscars, Desks

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• Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Beautiful, Spring, Revolution

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.22, Trinity University Press

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• 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

  Water, Might, Pressure

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• Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Rocks, Feelings, Lasts

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead”

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• Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Talking, Training

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the works of man might be a personal regret but remained, in the larger picture I had come to recognize, a matter of abiding indifference. No eye was on the sparrow. No eye was watching me.

  Joan Didion

  Regret, Eye, Men

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• During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow. In the same way the shattering experiences of suffering can cause the living water to well up in a human heart.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Spring, Heart, Land

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• Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Moving, Men, Perspective

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• Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sorry, Powerful, Stupid

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Prosperity, Reason

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• Pregnant
  and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that
  gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental
  forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have
  to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that
  you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Mother, Law, Order

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.270, Book Publishing Company

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• Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.

  Andy Borowitz

  Hurricanes, Made, Untrue

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Aug 29, 2011

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• Nature and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud warnings. Today you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms, climate changes and earthquakes as our prophecies said would come. Why do animals act like they know about the earth's problems and most humans act like they know nothing? If we humans do not wake up to the warnings, the great purification will come to destroy this world just as the previous worlds were destroyed.

  Thomas Banyacya

  Animal, Giving, Storm

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