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• On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

  John Milton

  Doors, Sound, Harsh

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 879

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• Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Song, Fun

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.113

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• the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. / thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. / wings brush against flowers. / fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar.

  Hans Arp

  Spring, Flower, Fall

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• The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

  George D. Prentice

  War, Rivers, Air

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• So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed; He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled; And the waters above the earth came down, The cooling waters came down.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Eye, Hands, Sea

  James Weldon Johnson (2000). “Complete Poems”, p.16, Penguin

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• Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter, Echoes, Mountain

  Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Dream, Voice, Feelings

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.109

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• How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Dream, Morning, Dark

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

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lightning, World, Ends

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• When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Passion, Imagination, Magic

  "Circling: 1978-1987" by Dejan Stojanovic, Krugovanje, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "Alexander the Great," (p. 55), 2000.

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• The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Strength, Strong

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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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• The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Passion, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.246, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn't see any flashing bulbs. I didn't hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Heart, Emotional

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

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• What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.
  The years thunder by.

  Sterling Hayden

  Lying, Years, Pyramids

  "Wanderer". Book by Sterling Hayden, 1963.

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• Are there no stones in heaven
  But what serves for thunder?

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Stones

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 232

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• Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the Brothers Johnson, we shared decades of magical times working together in the studio and touring the world. From my albums 'Body Heat' and 'Mellow Madness,' to their platinum albums 'Look Out for #1,' 'Right On Time,' 'Blam' and 'Light Up the Night,' which I produced, to Michael's solo debut 'Off the Wall,' I considered Louis a core member of my production team. He was a dear and beloved friend and brother, and I will miss his presence and joy of life every day.

  Quincy Jones

  Life, Brother, Wall

  FaceBook post by Quincy Jones from May 22, 2015

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• Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, War, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

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• Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.

  Christopher John Farley

  Real, Writing, Sky

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• Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

  Benjamin Butler

  Air, Storm, Lightning

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• Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Light, Two, Creating

  "Mind is a Myth". Book by U. G. Krishnamurti. Ch. 3: Not Knowing Is Your Natural State, 1987.

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• Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water
  high clouds
  to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched,
  a messenger of blessed rain,
  but this was as dry as hell must be.
  My distraught perception refused
  to believe it, because of the insane
  suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit,
  and how casually it came
  to murder my child.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Children, Rain, Believe

  "The First Long Range Artillery Fire On Leningrad". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1993.

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• By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.

  John Ramsay

  Sky, Lightning, Fancy

  John Ramsay (1840). “Eglinton park meeting, and other poems”, p.32

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• The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.

  Thomas Campion

  Men, Joy, Secret

  Thomas Campion (1907). “Poetical Works (in English) of Thomas Campion”

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