Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 394 authors

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. — Woodrow Wilson
I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of… — Stephen King
Stand high long enough and your lightning will come. — William Gibson
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without… — Frederick Douglass
did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works — William Steig
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? — Theodore Sturgeon
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness,… — Madeleine L'Engle
Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and… — Terry Pratchett
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know… — Don DeLillo
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to… — Emily Dickinson
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story?… — Diane Setterfield
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! — Friedrich Nietzsche
In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For… — Rick Riordan
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained… — P.G. Wodehouse
Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash… — Alice Hoffman
Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing… — Jim Carroll
The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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