Thunder Quotes - Page 16

• If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

  Jerry Garcia

  Lightning, Ifs

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• And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.

  Alison Croggon

  Wall, Men, Light

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• Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a sudden crash of thunder,' said Otto. 'And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say "Yonder is . . . zer castle" a volf would be bound to howl mournfully.' He sighed. 'In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Home, Eye

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• As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

  Michael Palin

  Atheist, Morning, Believe

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• There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

  Alan Paton

  Home, Sleep, Past

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• If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Lightning, Littles

  Jules Verne (1969). “20,000 leagues under the sea”, Signet Classics

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• Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.

  Shan Sa

  Stars, Moon, Axes

  Shan Sa (2009). “Empress: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• When you take your step your dream comes true,you see the sky with fluffy clouds you take your breath-the flowers bloom you belth your way to the top of the mountain you see the sky it leaves you nothing but bumps the rain comes down the lighting hits you are the thunder and Im your lighting just deal with everything Naturally.

  Selena Gomez

  Dream, Rain, Flower

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• So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.

  Herman Melville

  Light, Mind, Way

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle, Hershel Parker (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.327, Northwestern University Press

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• the rain is coming. little sister, the night broke. the thunder cracked my brain finally. the rain is coming, i promise you. i didn’t mean to but your tears will bring life back. purple flowers grow, the colour blood looks in the veins. they’ll sprout out of my chest. i promise you they’ll crack the ground, grow over the freeways, down the slopes to the sea. i’ll be in their faces. i’ll be in the waves, coming down from the sky. i’ll be inside the one who holds you. and then i won’t be.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Rain, Flower, Mean

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• The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Storm, Twenties

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.585, Del Rey

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• If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Sunshine, Lightning

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• Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Flower, Power

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1989). “Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe”, Richard West

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• Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Moving, Light, Circles

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to thee.

  Reba McEntire

  Stars, Soul, Rolling

  "Reba McEntire's New Album Is A Dedication To Family And Faith". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 4, 2017.

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• Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves
  As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

  Abraham Cowley

  Strong, Hands, Stones

  Abraham Cowley (1710). “The Works”, p.62

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• War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Niagara

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.408

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• the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Dog, Sorry

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• The middle years of life come on like thunder.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Years, Age, Middle

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• Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.

  Elihu Burritt

  Giving, Lightning, Oratory

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• Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Anger, Men, Weather

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• A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.

  Thomas Huxley

  Powerful, Water, Trifles

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• The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Land, Lightning

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• I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Song, War, Eye

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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• Whenever problems seem to get the best of me, whenever I feel them closing in on me, I go to a quiet place that lies somewhere in my soul. I do not reason, analyze or think. Those will come later. I simply go. From this place of silence, I garner strength and inspiration to stand firm in the face of fire, to be calm in the midst of thunder. When I emerge, the world has not changed, but I have. And in changing, a whole new world is born.

  John Harricharan

  Lying, Inspiration, Thinking

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