Mercalli Quotes & Sayings

Good, I haven't written anything in two weeks except what I've written in my journal.
And that is good? What kind of standards are you using? — Dora Okeyo

Well ... " Enoch's voice broke into his thoughts. "What do you think?" "I want Taylor to have the pick of the litter." "In the long run, it wouldn't be a bad idea for her to have a dog. Until things simmer down, I want to hire you to guard my sister." "No need. I'm going to marry her. — Cathy Marie Hake

It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people. — Robert Heilbroner

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Love does to your soul what spring does to the rose. — Subhan Zein

If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered. — Richard Branson

21And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty. — Anonymous

Listen closely ... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it. — Jack Kerouac

Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then comparable to the signal strength noted on a receiver at a given locality. Intensity, like signal strength, will generally fall off with distance from the source; it will also depend on local conditions at the point of observation, and to some extent on the conditions along the path from source to that point. — Charles Francis Richter

The toughest bullshit to cut through, is one's own. — Joseph L. Galloway

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky