Quotes & Sayings About Earthquakes In Haiti

Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough. — Dusty Springfield

Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you. — Cynthia Lewis

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. — Dejan Stojanovic

I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand — Tony Benn

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Why doesn't the law permit a man to marry a second woman? A: Because the law says you cannot be punished twice for the same offense. — Various

I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you ... because no one has the right to take the life of another human being. — Joan Baez

All this working land was turned into exuberance by the light. The sunshine was dizzy on open stubble; shadows from immense cumulus clouds were forever sliding across low mounds; and the sky was wider and loftier and more resolutely blue than the sky of cities ... she declared. It's a glorious country; a land to be big in — Sinclair Lewis

God - the Bible's Author - loves you and wants you to be His child through faith in Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

There are no tomorrow's and there was no yesterday, what you have now is what you will have. — Santosh Kalwar

Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war. — Jacque Fresco

What do we know," he had said, "of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with a wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have. I have always believed that such strange, inaccessible worlds exist at our very elbows, and now I believe I have found a way to break down the barriers. — H.P. Lovecraft

Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name." — Edwidge Danticat

All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness. — Jack Beal