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• Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.

  Hilary McKay

  Night, Light, Feet

  Hilary McKay (2007). “Caddy Ever After”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

  Ralph Nader

  People, Usual, Watches

  Ralph Nader (2011). “In Pursuit of Justice: Collected Writings 2000-2003”, p.177, Seven Stories Press

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• Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined. But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black.

  Claudia Gray

  Pain, Flower, Heart

  Claudia Gray (2010). “Evernight (Evernight, Book 1)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which are rare and brief, that their beat can be faintly discerned. There are other times. These are the times when God is heard in rolling thunder, when the earth trembles and the treetops bend under the force of [God’s] voice. It is not given to men [and women] to make God speak. It is only given to them to live and to think in such a way that, if God’s thunder should come, they will not have stopped their ears.

  Peter L. Berger

  Dark, Men, Thinking

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• Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Hate, Eye, Wings

  Robinson Jeffers, “Love The Wild Swan”

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• Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.

  Eudora Welty

  Flower, Dark, Clouds

  Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.250, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants . . .

  Herman Melville

  Girl, Home, Dancing

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.137, Velvet Element Books

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• My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.' Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.

  Stephen King

  Moving, Eye, Son

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

  Elephants, Dawn, Hot

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• Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

  James A. Garfield

  Power, Rocks, Two

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• Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Country, Rain

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.8, Harper Collins

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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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• At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

  Yann Martel

  Thinking, Wonder, Moments

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.337, Canongate Books

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• It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

  Ivan Panin

  Lightning, Roaring, Silent

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• The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.

  Ivan Panin

  Lightning, Gone, Danger

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• You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Horse, Believe

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• When it is peace, then we may view again With new-won eyes each other's truer form And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain When it is peace. But until peace, the storm The darkness and the thunder and the rain.

  Charles Sorley

  Peace, Pain, Rain

  Charles Hamilton Sorley (2012). “Marlborough and Other Poems”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest. When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king. When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Kings, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (2005). “கீதாஞ்சலி: Kītāñcali”, p.83, Sura Books

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• The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

  Maureen Johnson

  Hockey, Fighting, Winning

  "The Name of the Star (The Shades of London)". Book by Maureen Johnson, September 29, 2011.

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• I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beach, Missing Someone, Sea

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.105, Рипол Классик

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• The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

  Charles Rollin

  Greatness, Tree, Reason

  Charles Rollin (1851). “The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians”, p.285

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• I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Greatness, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Mar 04, 2013

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• 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. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!

  Robert Jordan

  Lying, Light, Dragons

  Robert Jordan (2005). “New Spring: The Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Will you stay with me ” she asked. Her voice was the thinnest whisper almost canceled out by a low groan of thunder.... Forever ” he whispered back. The sweet sound of his voice filled her up.

  Lauren Kate

  Sweet, Voice, Forever

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