Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 390 authors

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise… — Charles Spurgeon
When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a stroke of lightning. When involved… — Milarepa
It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the… — Josh Garrels
"Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today," says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from… — Janet Morris
Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds! — H. Rider Haggard
Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. — Eric Mackay
The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going… — John Prine
Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where… — Hilary McKay
I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends… — Kristen Bell
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… — Norman Mailer
They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage… — Kathi Appelt
Never forget how swiftly this life will be over, like a flash of summer lightning or the wave of a hand. Now that you have… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take… — Damon Galgut
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly.… — Paul Provenza
His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning. — P.G. Wodehouse
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can… — Mark Twain
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. — Herman Melville

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