#earthquake

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

#buildings #earthquake #every #frustrating #get

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. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#bridges #buildings #care #chaotic #collapsing

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? ↗

— George Byron

#besides #continuous #earthquake #eternal #ever

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

#earthquake #nature #yosemite #nature

I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great. ↗

— Elena Vesnina

#day #earthquake #feels #great #i

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. ↗

— Voltaire

#earth #earthquakes #little #more #opinion

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#earthquake #out #starts #story #up

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then find your feet playing a tune, and quickly discover the music and poetry of these magnificent rock piles -- a fine lesson; and all Nature's wildness tells the same story -- the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort -- each and all are the orderly beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart. ↗

— John Muir

#earthquakes #nature #order #yosemite #beauty

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake? ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#advance #asked #attack #days #disaster

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain. ↗

— Amos Oz

#arabs #blaming #britain #clear #crystal