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


Mark Twain

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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MARK TWAIN It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high s...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sur...
JOHN BAUER Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
CLINT EASTWOOD Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
CLINT EASTWOOD Thunder may sound a warning, but it's too late for the lightning.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.
GEORGE HERBERT Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bu...
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DAN PEITZ It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Do not be intimidated(discouraged) by thunder, You are lightning
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DAVID HORSEY When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When shall we three meet again,in thunder, lightning or in rain.
MADELEIN L'ENGLE If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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DAN CHAPMAN It Is Time To Awaken The Thunder Within YOU!
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD BP is more fat. Exxon is all muscle. Exxon stole the thunder this quarter.
FADEL GHEIT I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
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CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
EDEN AHBEZ Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I go where the sound of thunder is.
ALFRED M. GRAY Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,...
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I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
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MARTIN LUTHER ‎A change of work is the best rest.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agi...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to t...
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VAL KILMER Negativity is a great big dark cloud full of thunder and lightning ,it will rain for ever if you let...
GARY F EVANS... If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
RUSSIAN PROVERB I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
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SUFJAN STEVENS Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.
CHRIS DONLAY When you become a raindrop in your mind
Thunder is the closest friend you may find
Wind ...
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WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS 'Horse thunder' is what I call the sound of galloping hooves.
JOHN FUSCO Thunder rolled . . It rolled a six.
TERRY PRATCHETT But that's what love is like when it's fresh and new. It's fire and thunder and heat.
CARRIE RYAN We're going to see a lot more of him. He's got some thunder, he's going to be able to do some things...
JOE TORRE A Sound of Thunder.
EDWARD BURNS A Sound of Thunder,
RAY BRADBURY If you want to meet Mark Twain, all you have to do is use your brain!
STEVE RAY COLLINS Nice days and nice people are fine, but what I really like are things that can be described as feroc...
TAYLOR VERNON RYAN I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER But when lightning and the roar of thunder ,are observed after the sacred fires have been made to bl...
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LLEWELLYN THUNDER Our life is taking care of him. That's what it's all about now.
LLEWELLYN THUNDER Couldn't be more prouder of him.
LLEWELLYN THUNDER It's going to be hard for the rest of our lives, because it's something we have to live with.
LLEWELLYN THUNDER There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
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ROBERT JORDAN Clouds that thunder do not always rain.
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