Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self. — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If lightning strikes, Id cover my heart so when it hits me, Id fall happily knowing I protected you. Cause I spared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire. — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Why do you always see lightning first and hear the thunder later? Because your eyes are in front of your ears — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
“I may as well shackle my wrist to a bolt of lightning as attach myself to a mortal.” — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“A couple of your guests saw a fireball come out the sky, and the place went up. Heat lightning is what will… — Allyson James Copy Share Image
Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes...… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“It is He who makes the lightning flash upon you, inspiring you with fear and hope, and gathers up the heavy clouds.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In most superhero shows, the superhero is pretty young. He's in his 20s; he's single. 'Black Lightning' is a man who's middle-aged,… — Nafessa Williams Copy Share Image
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“At that instant a dazzling claw of lightning streaked down the length of the sky. The hedge and the distant trees seemed… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard,… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
“I’ll be good,” he repeated. “Something tells me you’ve told that particular fib more than once.” “Mostly when I’m making deals with… — Mimi Strong Copy Share Image
“Lightning struck five feet away. Becca screamed. Then lightning hit the other end of the bridge, almost directly hitting the Guide. Chris… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future,… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
She briefly wished she did have some sort of magic so she could shoot a bolt of lightning through his head. — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“Ah! The transitory joy of the past week had been but the lightning's arrowy course scathing where it illumined!” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
Lightning sometimes shocks people because it just doesn't know how to conduct itself. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“In mythology, lightning represents either the loss of ignorance or punishment for those who overstep their bounds. I used two bolts since… — Joelle Charbonneau Copy Share Image
One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
They chose the olive" "They must really like olives" "Forget it" "Now if she invented pizza that i can understand" -Percy to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, love isn't always the coup de foudre --the lightning strike. Sometimes it happens quietly, so quitely you may not… — Julia Justiss Copy Share Image
You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image