Mr. Speaker, From Hurricanes And Floods In Latin America To Earthquakes In Asia, Natural Disasters Are Increasingly Becoming A Regular Feature Of Life For Large Numbers Of People Around The Globe.
Gnu, N. An Animal Of South Africa, Which In Its Domesticated State Resembles A Horse, A Buffalo And A Stag. In Its Wild Condition It Is Something Like A Thunderbolt, An Earthquake And A Cyclone.
Nothing But An Imperious Intellectual And Moral Necessity Can Drive Into Doubt A Religious Mind, For It Is As Though An Earthquake Shook The Foundations Of The Soul, And The Very Being Quivers And Sways Under The Shock.
If You Want To Understand Geology, Study Earthquakes. If You Want To Understand The Economy, Study The Depression.
The Only Way I'll Ever Get Hurt In The Casino Is If There's An Earthquake And A Slot Machine Falls On My Foot.
Cities Are Distinguished By The Catastrophic Forms They Presuppose And Which Are A Vital Part Of Their Essential Charm. New York Is King Kong, Or The Blackout, Or Vertical Bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles Is The Horizontal Fault, California Breaking Off And Sliding Into The Pacific: Earthquake.
I Don't Know How Much God Has To Do To Get The Attention Of The Politicians. We've Had An Earthquake; We've Had A Hurricane. He Said, 'are You Going To Start Listening To Me Here?' Listen To The American People Because The American People Are Roaring Right Now. They Know Government Is On A Morbid Obesity Diet And We've Got To Rein In The Spending.
We Are The Fault Line; If You Don't Deal With This Fault Line, You're Going To Have An Earthquake, That's What We Always Said.
All Earthquakes And Disasters Are Warnings; There’s Too Much Corruption In The World
Rage Is By No Means An Automatic Reaction To Misery And Suffering As Such; No One Reacts With Rage To An Incurable Disease Or To An Earthquake Or, For That Matter, To Social Conditions That Seem To Be Unchangeable. Only Where There Is Reason To Suspect That Conditions Could Be Changed And Are Not Does Rage Arise.
These Often Unsung Heroes Understand...that Poverty, Disease And Famine Are Just As Deadly And Destructive As Earthquakes, Hurricanes And Tsunamis. Individuals ...are Taking On These Challenges In Their Communities, Volunteering To Make A Difference. They Remain The True Champions Of Our Work Towards The Millennium Development Goals.
