Storm

"I understand youve been running from the man That goes by the name of the Sandman. He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye Of a hurricane thats abandoned."

"As noted scientist Richard Feynman once explained, "the earth is negative, and the potential in the air is positive." That tension is maintained by thunderstorms, which are happening at some point in the world at any given time. But that tension varies throughout the planet. On a day without a cloud in the sky, APG levels can get up to 100 volts per meter, the metric used to measure the strength of an electric field. However, in a thunderstorm those levels can rise up to 10 kilovolts per meter, exponentially larger."

"Seventy-three men sailed in, from the San Francisco Bay, Rolled off of their ship and heres what they had to say. "Were calling everyone to ride along, to another shore. Where we can laugh our lives away and be free once more." But no one heard them calling, no one came at all, Cause they were too busy watching those old raindrops fall. As a storm was blowing, out on the peaceful sea, Seventy-three men sailing off to history."

"We are not this storys author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose. Yet his purpose is achieved in our duty; and our duty is fulfilled in service to one another. Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing, we renew that purpose today: to make our country more just and generous; to affirm the dignity of our lives and every life. This work continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm."

"Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swelld with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl oer the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tird, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears."

"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm, to avoid a shipwreck."

"I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds Have rivd the knotty oaks, and I have seen The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, To be exalted with the threatning clouds But never till to-night, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire."

"I know there is a God — I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it — if he has a place then I am ready — we see the hand."

"A little gale will soon disperse that cloud … for every cloud engenders not a storm."

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenchd our steeples."

"Blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! The storm is up, and all is on the hazard."

"Der Sturm ist Meister; Wind und Welle spielen Ball mit dem Menschen."