Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offsprings of our pride and carelesness, to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla -- that strangely innocent and tragic monster -- has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain.
I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.
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.
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.
Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.
We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIVAIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.
A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?
An earthquake is such fun when it is over.
It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
I think we're like farm animals before an earthquake.
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.
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.
Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes.
