“ I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. ”
- Eden Ahbez- Copy
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“ The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
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“ In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 793
“ Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 601
“ God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. ”
- William Lyon Phelps- Copy
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“ He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 333
“ Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ The cannon thunders… limbs fly in all directions… one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice… it's humanity in search of happiness. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air… ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
- 244
“ We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 587
“ For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced. ”
- Frederick Douglas- Copy
- 77
“ I love to hear the thunder, watch the lightning when it lights up the sky. You know it makes me feel good. Well I love a rainy night, it's such a beautiful sight. I love to feel the rain on my face, to taste the rain on my lips in the moonlight shadow… ”
- Chris A. Bridges- Copy
- 3K
“ More than 3 million square miles of territory to protect, 10 thousand miles of border to guard and a fence to build 10, 11 or 12 miles high. It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. ”
- Ben Chidlaw- Copy
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“ I fought on the Ali-Bob Foster under card against Henry Clark. After the fights he was down in the bar or lounge area with a bunch of ladies. I came down and kinda stole part of his thunder. He jumped up and said I'm gonna box you and started yelling I'm gonna kick your butt… ”
- Ken Norton- Copy
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“ You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick… You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps… so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. ”
- Dylan Thomas- Copy
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“ Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Mr Wells belongs to the non military middle class. The thunder of guns, the jingle of spurs, the catch in the throat when the old flag goes by, leave him manifestly cold. He has an invincible hatred of the fighting, hunting, swash-buckling side of life, symbolized in all his early books by a violent propaganda against horses. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his appetite. His name the smirking tourist scrawls Upon Minerva's temple walls, Where thundered once Olympian Zeus, And marks his appetite's abuse… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
- 195
“ Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle… ”
- Frederick Douglas- Copy
- 61
“ It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions… ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
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“ It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death… ”
- Anne Frank- Copy
- 3.8K
“ O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 244
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