Thunder And Lightning Quotes

• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

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• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  Eden Ahbez

  Rain, Wind, Heaven

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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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• Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lightning, World, Thunder

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• A clear sunny day can suddenly shift to thunder and lightning, a raging storm can suddenly give way to a bright moonlit night. The weather may be inconstant, but the sky remains the same. The substance of the human mind should also be like this.

  Zicheng Hong

  Night, Sky, Weather

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• They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Sarcastic, Heaven

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

  Mark Twain

  God, Writing, Attention

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.79, 1st World Publishing

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• Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.

  Mason Cooley

  Lying, Lightning, May

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• I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and the stars and the void through which they travel. The essence of nature, eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear, known as the great illusion time, and the all-prevailing atmosphere. And now you know my background.

  Eden Ahbez

  Rain, Men, Wind

  Tape recording to Joe Romersa, 1992.

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• Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.

  William Shakespeare

  Fog, Air, Hovering

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe (1723). “The works of Shakespear: In six volumes”, p.517

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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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• If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may 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 Douglass

  Wisdom, Freedom, Rain

  Frederick Douglass (2014). “Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

  Confucius

  Strong, Light, Opposites

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• I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electricity out. We had this oil lantern that had been in my grandfather's homestead at the turn of the century, before there even was electricity. He'd bring it down off the top shelf, and we'd always play cards.

  Feist

  Kids, Play, Oil

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Peace, Men

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 46

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• If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

  John Piper

  Falling In Love, Greatness, Light

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• I like storms. I like thunder and lightning. What I do during a storm is shag my girlfriend and pretend that we're taking part in the conception of the Antichrist.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

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• Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Rain, Play

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1043, Modern Library

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• Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving, Passion, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Writing, Needs

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range.

  Li Bai

  Spring, Rain, Winter

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• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Flames, Hatred

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• Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Mean, Intelligent, America

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• You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Bed, Lightning

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.79, 1st World Publishing

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• You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Writing, Needs

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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