It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas.
VIPessays now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Letter "E" » earthquakes
«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
«An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men»
«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
|
Keywords:
asunder,
centuries,
chose,
earthquake,
earthquakes,
erode,
eroded,
erodes,
eroding,
lightning,
noiselessly,
rend,
snow,
split,
stormy,
tender,
tool,
torrent,
unnumbered
«For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.»
«For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.»
«I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.»
«If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake»
Author: Groucho Marx
(
Actor,
Comedian,
Singer)
|
Keywords:
clean,
clean up,
earthquake,
earthquakes,
get rid of,
lower,
lowered,
lowering,
lowers,
mess,
rid,
rid of,
settle,
smog,
taxes,
the next,
traffic,
traffics
«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.»
«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
«All things have second birth;The earthquake is not satisfied at once.»