Lightning Quotes - Page 25

• Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

  Eva Hoffman

  Laughter, Play, Conversation

  Eva Hoffman (2011). “Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language”, p.118, Random House

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• What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

  Cory Doctorow

  Fighting, What If, Umbrella

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.96, Macmillan

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• Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Fall, Earthquakes, Inevitable Death

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

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• 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 in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow.

  Joe Mahoney

  Inspirational, Hope, Fear

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• If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

  Laozi

  Tree, Concerned, Ifs

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• The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Beautiful, Perception, Study

  Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.119

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• When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.

  L. J. Smith

  Soulmate, Destiny, Thinking

  L.J. Smith (2008). “Night World No. 1: Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range.

  Li Bai

  Spring, Rain, Winter

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• Like vanishing dew,
  a passing apparition
  or the sudden flash
  of lightning -- already gone --
  thus should one regard one's self.

  Ikkyu

  Self, Dew, Gone

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• One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.

  Margaret George

  Life, Darkness, Storm

  Margaret George (2011). “Elizabeth I: The Novel”, p.452, Penguin

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• I think about a storm rolling in with black clouds and I visualize the lightning and try to draw energy from that, and I think: all I have to do is beat this man until he stops moving, then I can go home to my son.

  Carlos Condit

  Moving, Home, Son

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• This is history written in lightning.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Hollywood, Film, Written

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• Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Light, Two, Creating

  "Mind is a Myth". Book by U. G. Krishnamurti. Ch. 3: Not Knowing Is Your Natural State, 1987.

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• The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Air, Mist, Heavy

  Stephen R. Lawhead (2013). “The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2”, p.147, Lion Fiction

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• Money can't buy off the lightning.

  Stephen King

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dead Zone”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

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• And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.

  John Buchan

  Fall, Lakes, Sight

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• 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 any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.

  A. B. Simpson

  Christian, Hurt, Soul And Body

  A.B. Simpson “The Holy Spirit, or, Power from on high”, Рипол Классик

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• 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 on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Book, Light

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• 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 a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Autumn, Clouds

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• Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash, While fleet and far the living lightnings flash... And see the fiery arrows fall and rise, In dizzy chase along the rattling skies,— How stirs the spirit while the echoes roll, And God, in thunder, rocks from pole to pole!

  Robert Montgomery

  Fall, Clouds, Echoes

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem”, p.26

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• By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.

  John Ramsay

  Sky, Fancy, Thunder

  John Ramsay (1840). “Eglinton park meeting, and other poems”, p.32

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• Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

  P. N. Elrod

  Fame, Fortune, Strikes

  P. N. Elrod (2011). “The Vampire Files, Volume Three”, p.244, Penguin

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• Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Tree, Shelter

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.37

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• 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 on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Flames, Mind

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• Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

  Benjamin Butler

  Air, Storm, Pestilence

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