Thunderbolts Quotes

• I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.

  Marquis de Sade

  Believe, Thinking, Evil

  Marquis de Sade, David Coward (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.127, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

  Voltaire

  Flash

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• Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.

  Barack Obama

  Justice, Effort, Sometimes

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• Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Men, Fire

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Stupid, Umbrella

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Brave, Heaven

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1985, Manonmani Publishers

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• And thou, all-shaking thunder,
  Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
  Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once
  That makes ingrateful man!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Vaunt, Cracks

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.

  Esther M. Friesner

  Zeus, Aphrodite

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• Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Time, Moving

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• Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it. Without the time and effort invested in getting ready to create, you can be hit by a thunderbolt and it'll just leave you stunned.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Creativity, Effort

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.

  William Shakespeare

  Scapes

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedie of Antonie and Cleopatra”, p.136, Classic Books Company

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• It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master break down doors to enter His own home? Without earthquake, or thunderclap: the flame has lit up the whole world from within.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Faith, Inspiration, Home

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.16, Рипол Классик

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• Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

  Camille Paglia

  Science, Accounts, Avert

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.31, Canongate Books

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• I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Meteors

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James”, p.4383, e-artnow

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• It hit me like a thunderbolt!

  Rio Ferdinand

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• My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Should Have, Iron, Mind

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• When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing, firm as the mountains. As unfathomable as the clouds, move like a thunderbolt.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Moving

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• Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

  Victor Hugo

  Hate, Ignorance, Blood

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.760, Wordsworth Editions

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• Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else.  This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears.  Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.

  Roz Savage

  Strong, Powerful, Ocean

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• Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

  John Brown

  Liars, Character, Honor

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• Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Alexandre Dumas, Euripides (1969). “Three plays”

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• He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
  Close to the sun in lonely lands,
  Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
  The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
  He watches from his mountain walls,
  And like a thunderbolt he falls.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lonely, Wall, Fall

  "The Eagle" l. 1 (1851)

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• Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Commitment

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• If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

  Ovid

  Men, Jupiter, Sin

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• God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.

  Salman Rushdie

  Years, Religion, Atheism

  "In God We Trust". Essay by Salman Rushdie, 1985.

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