Earthquake Quotes

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. (Ludwig von Mises)
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity. View quote
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. View quote
Charles Francis Richter
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. View quote
Harry Seidler
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. View quote
Warren Rudman
But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself. View quote
John Dewey
Your dreamers may dream it The shadow of a dream, Your sages may deem it A bubble on the stream; Yet our kingdom draweth nigher With each dawn and every day, Through the earthquake and the fire Love will find out the way. View quote
Alfred Noyes
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. View quote
Jeannette Rankin
From behind the shadow of the still small voice - more awful than tempest or earthquake - more sure and persistent than day and night - is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." View quote
Thomas Hughes
An earthquake is such fun when it is over. View quote
George Orwell
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)
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. View quote
William Lyon Phelps
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. View quote
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others.... These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism".... Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?! View quote
Yusuf Qaradawi
With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake. View quote
Alyssa Milano
When the Haiti earthquake happened, I registered with UNICEF to set up an account, and posted to Twitter for people to donate to it. In a matter of a couple of hours, $30,000 had been donated. That, to me, was eye-opening. View quote
Misha Collins
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. View quote
Charles Francis Richter
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies. View quote
Conrad Veidt
We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans. (Ellen Tauscher)
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. View quote
Helen Hunt
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. View quote
Jon Porter
I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. View quote
Jon Scieszka
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake. View quote
Josiah Strong