Quotes About Earthquakes In Japan

#1. Mixture of lie doeth ever add pleasure.

Francis Bacon

#2. In contrast to New Orleans, there was only minimal looting after the horrendous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan-because, when you get down to it, Japanese aren't blacks.

Steve Sailer

#3. All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

Eli Siegel

#4. A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

George Alagiah

#5. I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, "What's the definition of a moderate Arab?" "I don't know." "A guy who ran out of ammunition.

Nelson DeMille

#6. There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out hadn't shown up or spoken to me for more than a year.

Jim Butcher

#7. I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

V.S. Naipaul

#9. People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.

Hayao Miyazaki

#10. An old friend of mine named Jean fell through a tear in her marriage and landed on her feet.

Catherine McNamara

#11. I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

Isaac Asimov

#12. It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

Voltaire

#13. The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

W. H. Auden

#14. With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.

Ann Coulter

#15. It's mistakes that make us who we are.

Tom Hardy

#16. She stepped inside, into warmth and white marble veined with gray, into the strangely spicy scent of whatever the masses of bold flowers cast off from their silver urn on the central table.

J.D. Robb

#17. In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

Maurice Sendak

#18. A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

Alexander Smith

#19. In the town, children go down on their backs in the drifted snow and move their arms and, when they rise, leave behind them impressions, mysterious and ominous, of winged creatures.

John Gardner

#20. Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

Harry Seidler