Lightning Quotes - Page 19

• Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Mountain, Strikes, Censure

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• Thought can wing its way
  Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam
  That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

  James Gates Percival

  Wings, Way, Beam

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.170

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• Through heaven and earth
  God's will moves freely, and I follow it,
  As color follows light. He overflows
  The firmamental walls with deity,
  Therefore with love; His lightnings go abroad,
  His pity may do so, His angels must,
  Whene'er He gives them charges.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Moving, Angel

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.28

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• From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Light, Evil, Imperfection

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1859). “Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life”, p.125

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• Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning bolts that do six hundred damage? Does he get extra movement points for—" "Nico, shut up!" Bianca put her hands to her face. "This is not your stupid Mythomagic game, okay? There are no gods!

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Hands, Games

  Rick Riordan (2008). “Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse”, p.30, Penguin UK

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• 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 and the lightning. To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Struggle, Angel, Army

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir (2009). “The White Company: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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 strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

  Kathi Appelt

  Strikes, Turns, Begets

  Kathi Appelt (2013). “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 the opportunity to practice dharma, do not waste a single moment on anything else.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Summer, Single Mom, Opportunity

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• 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 away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

  Damon Galgut

  Morning, Blue, Sky

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• 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. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.'

  Paul Provenza

  Silly, Talking, People

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• His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Light, Aspect

  "Eggs, Beans and Crumpets". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1940.

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• Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Light, Duration

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• 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 in front of our eyes at every level.

  Brian Sabean

  God, Eye, Thinking

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• 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

  Skulls, Light, Brain

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.346, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

  Joseph Priestley

  Science, Envy, Given

  Joseph Priestley (1966). “The History and Present State of Electricity: With Original Experiments. Reprinted from the 3d Ed., London, 1755, with an Appendix Containing Two Additional Papers of Original Experiments by the Author, and a New Introd. by Robert E. Shofield”

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• The moment of a miracle is unending lightning.

  Dylan Thomas

  Miracle, Moments, Unending

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.135, New Directions Publishing

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• 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 crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Blue, Dragons

  "'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter I: "The Craft", 1939.

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• When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Innocence, Sometimes, Strikes

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.161, Northwestern University Press

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• No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of the rainbow thrown in for good measure. When twenty or thirty of us meet, it is as hard to find three or four with the same complexion as it would be catch greased lightning in a bottle.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Color, White, Rainbow

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• Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.

  Elihu Burritt

  Giving, Oratory, Lessons

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• Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Real, Power, Men

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• Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Anger, Men, Weather

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• The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Land, Tongue

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• Sutures of lightning tightened the edges of the sky.

  T. J. MacGregor

  Sky, Weather, Edges

  T. J. MacGregor (1987). “Kill Flash”, Fawcett Books

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