Quotes with thunder-bolt

  • The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.

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  • William Shakespeare A fool's bolt is soon shot.
    Henry V (1599) 3,7
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Joseph Addison 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
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Eubie Blake Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
    Eubie Blake
    American pianist and composer (1887 - 1983)
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  • William Lyon Phelps 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
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Herman Melville He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Robert Bolt It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
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  • Frank Crane It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Andrew Cherry Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carlton Cuse The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Mark Twain Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton 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
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Robert Bolt When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
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