Mercalli Scale Quotes & Sayings

Choosing to live can mean so much more than not dying. — Stephanie Kuehn

Nothing has ever come easy for me. — Patti LuPone

Why do people put off travel until retirement? What are they saving it for? I understand that people want to be financially secure first, and pay off pension plans, but why consign the most active years of your life to drudgery? Why would you sacrifice today's freedom for a future that will always remain uncertain, no matter how carefully you plan for it? I'm not saying that everyone sitting in an office right this minute should drop everything and take off for Central Europe. I'm saying that if you want to see the world, plan for it and do it as soon as possible. The experience will give you the inspiration and fortitude you need to survive being a grown up. — Jessica Zafra

My last moments on earth would be spent in a Golden Nugget bathtub with crushed beer cans scattered across my faux Venetian tile and acrylic bearskin rug. — Lindsay Mark Lewis

Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more? — Michael J. Collins

I'm a runner. Not a race runner, but I just love to run, and I don't think I've ever tasted such amazing food like I've tasted in the whole entire New York. — Adan Canto

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

Bah!" exclaimed Rochester. "Pixies both! Begone with you; we will talk later! — Jasper Fforde

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit ... — Aiden Wilson Tozer

There was one or two offers that did come along during my time at United, but I always came back to this point; why would you leave United? Where is the bigger challenge? And the thing about challenges is, once you have won something, you can't live on that. Not at Manchester United - you have got to win the next one. And that's the challenge. Maintaining that consistency of winning which is a mentality that I have had. — Alex Ferguson