Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 394 authors

The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it… — Charles Dickens
The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricityâ€”like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when… — John Burroughs
The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter. — Rumi
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning… — Charles Caleb Colton
The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder. — George Santayana
The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end… — John Lyly
The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested… — Oliver Platt
Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there. — John Turner
It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being… — Fulton J. Sheen
I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the… — Merle Haggard
All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an… — Emile M. Cioran
Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain. — H. H. Asquith
Put yourself in the path of lightning, — Valerie Jarrett
[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them… — Walter Scott
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. — Alexander Pope
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and… — Oliver Goldsmith
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A… — Emma Lazarus
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. — Stendhal

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