Lightning Quotes
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More Lightning Quotes
Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away wakens the slumbering ages.
henry taylor— Philip van Artevelde, Act I, scene 7 (1834).
Thunder is good , thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work .
— Mark Twain, letter to an Unidentified Person (1908).
lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
— Meaning: "The same unpleasant or unexpected phenomenon will not recur in the same place or circumstances, or happen to the same person again; a superstition that often leads to a false sense of security."
— Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 169.
— Mieder, Wolfgang; Kingsbury, Stewart A.; Harder, Kelsie B. (1992). A Dictionary of American proverbs. pp. 710. , p. 634
The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.
stephen r. lawhead— p. 163 (The Bone House (2011))
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.
william shakespeare— Lysander, scene i
L'amour, croyait-elle, devait arriver tout a' coup, avec de grands e clats et des fulgurations. She believed that love should appear instantaneously, with the brilliance of a lightning storm.
Gustave Flaubert— 1857 Madame Bovary, pt.1, ch.8.
His love was passion's essence:as a tree On fire by lightning, with ethereal flame Kindled he was, and blasted.
Rochdale— 1812-18 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza 78.
The idea that a game is anything more than a game… You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results. If a golfer who insists on playing during a lightning storm gets hit by a stroke of lightning and is killed nobody says, 'There's golfers dying by the droves being hit by lightning!' You can overdo what you really like, and if you're unbalanced you go overboard.
gary gygax— GameSpy interview, Pt. 1 (15 August 2004)
We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
norman mailer— Ancient Evenings (1983) Last lines
Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn’t take, their constant bickering and smallness, it’s like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don’t scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.
Donald Barthelme— “Aria”, conclusion
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
mark twain— Letter to an Unidentified Person (1908).
Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.
john muir— The Mountains of California, Chapter 1: "The Sierra Nevada"
Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms, The lightning and the gale.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., A Metrical Essay.
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say "It lightens."
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act II, scene 2, line 118.
Oh, the air is sultry and pregnant with lightning . And therefore we call to our deluded brothers: Repent , repent, the Kingdom of the Lord is at hand !
— Mikhail Bakunin, in "The Reaction in Germany" (1842)
At Tara today in this fateful hour I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And fire with all the strength it hath, And lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace, Between myself and the powers of darkness.
— "The Rune of St. Patrick", derived from "The Lorica", both traditionally attributed to St. Patrick, published in Lyrica Celtica (1896); also in Celtic Christianity : Ecology and Holiness (1987) by Christopher Bamford and William Parker Marsh, p. 54
Oh, the air is sultry and pregnant with lightning . And therefore we call to our deluded brothers: Repent, repent, the Kingdom of the Lord is at hand !
— Mikhail Bakunin, in "The Reaction in Germany" (1842)
'Tis thou, alone, who with thy mystic fan, Work'st more than Wisdom, Art, or Nature can, To rouse the sacred madness; and awake The frost-bound-blood, and spirits; and to make Them frantic with thy raptures, flashing through The soul, like lightning, and as active too.
Robert Herrick— 1648 'His Fare-well to Sack'.
In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 1820 'To a Skylark', stanza 3.
The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?
kalki krishnamurthy— "Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur" as translated by Gowri Ramnarayan in Kalki : Selected Stories (1999)
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
joseph addison— No. 381 (17 May 1712).
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
gerard manley hopkins— Spring, stanza 1
The most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light, which flies out of the body as lightning breaks from a cloud.
Plutarch— Life of Romulus.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
mark twain
While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven, Calming the lightning which he thence hath riven.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Age of Bronze, V.
People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement. I was the spark [...] that started it. If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.
— Rick Santelli, Chicago Sun Times interview, September 19, 2010. [1]
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work.
— Mark Twain, as quoted in Living Like Benjamin : Making Dreams Come True (2007) by Brad Borden, p. 123
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored: He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
julia ward howe— Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic.
I call the Living I mourn the Dead I break the lightning.
— Inscribed on the Great Bell of the Minster of Schaffhausen; also on that of the Church of Art, near Lucerne.
