Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perry

Natural disasters recognize no state boundaries, and neither should FEMA, ... Texas is willing to work and do our part, but FEMA has to sit down and come up with a long-term, thoughtful plan.

Hun Sen

I don't know why we can stop the war but we can't stop natural disasters, these disasters make the people poorer and poorer,

Tom Rooney

Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners, it could reduce loss and, in many cases, save a family's home. For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved.

Rohan Gunaratna

We haven't even started to think about this issue. But natural disasters shape leaders.

Niki de St. Phalle

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Davitt McAteer

Historically, investigations of mine disasters in the United States have never involved the families of the victims. That era ends today.

Donald Williams

Hurricanes and disasters should not be made worse by profiteering,

Tom Clark

He did very well with disasters in the past and it always helped him, his presidency and his popularity,

Henry IV

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.

Nostradamus

The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.

David Suzuki

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.

Bear Grylls

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.

Edgar Cayce

If there are greater activities in Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere.

Charles Francis Richter

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

The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It was originally envisaged as a rather rough-and-ready procedure by which we could grade earthquakes. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

Charles Francis Richter

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

[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

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.

Cathy Hancock

One of the volunteers lived the next street over.

Annie Parisse

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

Stella McCartney

For years, the six of us lived in a two-bedroom house.

Roy Brown

On Sept. 12, he lived a day longer than my daughter. And it's just not fair.

John Foster

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

Dull Knife

I have lived my life. I am ready.

Proverb Proverb

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Wendy Miller

She doesn't seem to have been the society type or one to flaunt her wealth, but she lived well.

Richard C. Armitage

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

William Burroughs

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.

Tom Chillemi

Left-handers have a natural hook. They really have an advantage.

Mat Iandolo

Obviously, there is a revenge factor. (Indiana is) obviously our natural rival.

Dave Ramsey

Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.

A. N. Wilson

She was a natural leader, ... You know when there's a group, somebody always seems to be a leader? She was that.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

Michael Redd

Oh, yeah, naturally it's going to be disappointing,

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

William Masters

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Tony Sabatino

Scott is a special player. He does it all.

David Wright

No one's going to be selfish. Not this year. We can have a special year with all the talent we have here.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Bill Cowher

I can't say enough about our special teams. To me, that was the only thing that was on today. We didn't play well enough offensively or defensively.

Bill Cowher

I can't say enough about our special teams.

Ai-jen Poo

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.

Avery Cutshaw

I look for him to be pretty special by the time he's a senior.

Kelis

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

Bill Cowher

We didn't play well enough offensively and defensively, but I can't say enough about our special teams.

Denis Kearney

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Elizabeth Drew

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.

Dirk Benedict

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Dirk Benedict

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Edwin Arnold

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

Edwin Arnold

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

Laura Gunn

We know there are more victims out there.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.

Rep. Schultheis

You don't want to make two victims from the same crime.

Johnny Jessop

They're just as much victims as we are.

Henry Blake

One of the worst days. One of the very worst.

Peter Laviolette

Obviously, it could have been worse. You don't even want to think of what the worst could have been.

Bob Baffert

For some reason, this is the worst one I've ever felt,

Dirk Benedict

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

James A. Garfield

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.

Eddie Locascio

I didn't want to think the worst had happened, but ....

Walter Kirn

I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

Robert Brown

Where had I been now if the worst befell? / And here we are riding, she and I.

Charles Spurgeon

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'