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«I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.»
«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.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Needs
| Keywords:
earthquake, earthquakes, like thunder, shower, storm, The Whirlwind, thunder, thundered, thundering, whirlwind, whirlwinds
«Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Stupidity
| Keywords:
earthquake, elemental, match
«Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.»
Author: John Muir
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asunder, centuries, chose, earthquake, earthquakes, erode, eroded, erodes, eroding, lightning, noiselessly, rend, snow, split, stormy, tender, tool, torrent, unnumbered
«The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.»
«I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.»
«I remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
earthquake, impudent, mountebank, pills, shaken, sold
«I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.»
Author: Lord Byron
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affectation, affectations, by no means, earthquake, earthquakes, eruption, lava, prevents, rank, scale
«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?»
«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.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
| Keywords:
certificate, certificates, destroyed, earthquake, earthquakes, Francisco, great year, legal, proves, San, San Francisco, The San
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