I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt. — Paul Westhead Copy Share Image
Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the… — John Brown Copy Share Image
The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about.… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops:… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks!… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened… — Camille Copy Share Image
Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away,… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a very dark comedy book, whereas 'Red… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
