Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lightman

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.

Barbara Kingsolver

Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

Aristotle

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

Abbas Kiarostami

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.

Dan Quayle

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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.

Dorothy Thompson

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

Dale Carnegie

Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes

Andy Borowitz

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

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.

Demetri Martin

Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes.

Daniel Handler

Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.

Jan Schakowsky

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

Jan Schakowsky

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

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.

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.

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.

Charles Francis Richter

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

Bill Maher

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

Biz Stone

We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

Bill Gates

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Charles Kuralt

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

Douglas William Jerrold

If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.

John Muir

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.

John Muir

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

John Wesley

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

Helen Hunt

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

Jon Porter

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.