Earthquakes

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
- Charles Kuralt, 1934 - 1997

There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake; that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.
- Daniel Webster, 1782 - 1852

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.
- F. Paul Facult

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
- Ignazio Silone

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin, 1880 - 1973

Which would you rather have, a bursting planet or an earthquake here and there?
- John Joseph Lynch, SJ