Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 394 authors

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the… — James A. Baldwin
A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined… — Jim Butcher
I think his development has been lightning quick because of his God-given talent. He has great aptitude and he's been able to develop very fast… — Brian Sabean
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer… — Gautama Buddha
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of… — Gautama Buddha
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you… — Gautama Buddha
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. — B. Alan Wallace
This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. — Gautama Buddha
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be… — Margarita Engle
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks… — Joe Mahoney
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first… — Christopher McDougall
No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I… — Frederick Douglass
Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads… — Rosa Luxemburg
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes,… — Sergei Eisenstein
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky. — Kabir
The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. — Nikola Tesla
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute… — Patricia J. Williams
His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed. — Henry James

Who Wrote These Lightning Quotes

394 authors contributed a total of 495 Lightning Quotes, led by these top contributors: