Quotes with thunder-clap

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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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  • Bill Bailey Ah, lovely: the ripple, the ripple there. That's nearly the Zen clap of acceptance there, wasn't it?
    Part Troll
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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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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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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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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  • Henry Miller Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Andrew Cherry Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers.
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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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