Lightning Quotes - Page 19

• Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.

  Janet Morris

  Love, God, Men

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.358, Paradise Publishing

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• He bats like a lightning rod.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Bats

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• When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty for France and America. The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship.

  Chauncey Depew

  Dream, Home, Science

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1902). “The Library of Oratory: Ancient and Modern, with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists”

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Sweet

  'Spring' (written 1877)

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• Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

  Milarepa

  Strong, Buddhist, Thinking

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• The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Three, Three Things

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• 'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Running, Morning

  Miguel De Cervantes (1930). “Don Quixote”

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• BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Alcohol, Four

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.29, University of Georgia Press

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• There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Balls

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• These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Islamic, Men, Flames

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.242

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• We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed
  The white of their leaves, the amber grain
  Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now
  Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Rain, Wind, Rivers

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.24

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• No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Loss, Men

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

  Robert Redford

  Sarcastic, Personality, Attention

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• Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

  Karl Barth

  Faith, Gratitude, Echoes

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• how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

  Elinor Glyn

  Pride, Vow, Defying

  Elinor Glyn (1907). “Three Weeks”

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• the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Dog, Sorry

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• A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of his head lifted in a faint breeze. Out there the channel churned its cyclonic eddies counterclockwise. Schools of anchovies, halibut, and sea bass came and went: silver flashes, small storms that well up from the inside of the sea but are short-lived, like lightning.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Ocean, School, Night

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.67, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• The chance of a criminal getting caught,
  is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning.

  Michael Peterson

  Criminals, Chance, Caught

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• Pulque - lightning nectar for the Gods.

  Steve Olson

  Nectar

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• Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Principles, Use

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• Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

  Horace

  Break Through, Gold, Stones

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