Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 394 authors

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. — Laozi
When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle. — Bob Lefsetz
Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with… — Li Bai
I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against… — A B Simpson
Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation. — Eva Hoffman
Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel? — Gautama Buddha
If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from… — Charles Hodge
Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated… — Isaac Newton
BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were… — Ambrose Bierce
I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up. God… — Mansur Al-Hallaj
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. — Mary Stewart
Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she… — Sara Sheridan
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. — Mark Twain
I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal… — Elizabeth Smart
Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind. — Susan Cheever
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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