Lightning Quotes - Page 12

• If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

  Philip Yancey

  Tree, Doctrine, Sparkle

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.63, Harper Collins

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• My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Clouds, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.248, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

  Publilius Syrus

  Defense, Looks, Vain

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• As long as I'm alive, you'll never see the last of Lightning!

  Motomu Toriyama

  Long, Alive, Lasts

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• Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat up straight and said, ‘There she is!’ She and Sam Heughan absolutely lit up the screen with fireworks.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Believe, Moments, Fireworks

  "Ron Moore's 'Outlander' Sets Female Lead" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 11, 2013.

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• You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?

  John Yau

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  John Yau (2002). “Borrowed Love Poems”, p.31, Penguin

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• Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Song, Fun

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.113

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

  Pablo Neruda

  War, Love Is, Two

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and the stars and the void through which they travel. The essence of nature, eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear, known as the great illusion time, and the all-prevailing atmosphere. And now you know my background.

  Eden Ahbez

  Rain, Men, Wind

  Tape recording to Joe Romersa, 1992.

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• He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.

  John Steinbeck

  Father, Book, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.38, Penguin

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• I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

  Amy Hempel

  Dark, Rivers, Bugs

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt that severs the source of my life. -Soifon

  Tite Kubo

  Light, Water, Shadow

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• None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Book, Princess, Reading

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• Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?"

  James Patterson

  Toxic Waste, Guy, Soldier

  "Maximum Ride: The Final Warning". Book by James Patterson, p. 43, 2008.

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• Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Rain, Fall, Perfect

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• ...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)

  Ralph Keyes

  Block, Writing, Waiting

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• You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Blood, Perfect, House

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• A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Rain, Clouds, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Men, Hair

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.436, Faber & Faber

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• Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.

  Janet Evanovich

  Arson, Jersey, Mysterious

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “Twelve Sharp”, p.79, Macmillan

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• There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it was no use blaming the rocks.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Cutting, Men

  Margaret Atwood, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott (1998). “Two Solicitudes: Conversations”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Dark, Night, Giving

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• But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Monday, Hero, Adventure

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Weather, Heaven, Storm

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.175

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• Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving, Passion, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.82, Lulu.com

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