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Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.
God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable.
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.
You might be a redneck if...the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection.
Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.
Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.
One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
Don't you know That lovers make the rains, Call forth the sun, Re-route hurricanes, And exorcise earthquakes for fun.
Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.
The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.
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.
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.
We are the fault line; if you don't deal with this fault line, you're going to have an earthquake, that's what we always said.
How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about.
After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
We should be focused on the Haiti earthquake victims, not on what contracts your company should get, if you're a friend of Bill [Clinton].
If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.
Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.
God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.
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.
The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.
I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.
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.
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.
It is not the tempest, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but the still small voice of the Spirit that carries on the glorious work of saving souls.
It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.
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.
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.
I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.
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.
It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza.
I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.