Earthquake Survivors Quotes

#1. An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".

Sebastian Junger

#2. I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.

Slavenka Drakulic

#3. Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare

#4. The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Thomas Carlyle

#5. People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.

Pierre Alechinsky

#6. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

George Burns

#7. For a relationship to work, you really have to know the person you're involved with. Otherwise it's never going to last.

John Hall

#8. Introducing these people to our friends and family is, in a way, more heedlessly exhibitionistic than posting nude photos or sex tapes of ourselves online; it's like letting everyone watch our uncensored dreams.

Tim Kreider

#9. Within a couple of weeks even earthquake survivors return to their normal level of unfounded optimism.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#10. The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.

Craig Groeschel

#11. Why are we being chased by evil espresso drinks?!

Rick Riordan

#12. The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.

Santosh Kalwar

#13. For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.

Kate Seredy

#14. I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

Morris Chestnut

#15. But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

Hudson Taylor

#16. If we lose a couple in a row this season, it will be like the World Trade [Center] is coming down again.

Dwyane Wade