Lightning Quotes - page 10

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder. (Robert Jordan)
Yet one arrow has a power Lasting till life's latest hour-- Weary day and sleepless night, Lightning gleams of fierce delight, Fragrant and yet poisoned sighs, Agonies and ecstasies; Hopes, like fires amid the gloom, Lighting only to consume! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It matters not its history; love has wings Like lightning, swift and fatal, and it springs Like a wild flower where it is least expected, Existing whether cherish'd or rejected. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
And Love is like the lightning in its might, Winging where least bethought its fiery flight, Melting the blade, despite the scabbard's guard. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
One moment he is at her knee, "So, Leila, wouldst thou weep for me ?” Started she, as at lightning gleam,- "O, Mirza, this I did not dream! Moslem and Moor, may Spanish maid Hearken such words as thou hast said?”. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Let the thunder break on man and beast and bird And the lightning. It is something to have been. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Truly, human life is as ephemeral as dew and as brief as lightning. View quote
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Stand high long enough and your lightning will come. View quote
William Gibson
In many ways, I think I served as a lightning rod. View quote
Nancy Reagan
Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid. View quote
Richard Branson
After the blast of lightning from the east, The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot Throne; After the drums of time have rolled and ceased, And by the bronze west long retreat is blown, Shall Life renew these bodies? (Wilfred Owen)
In a violent flash of lightning I discern on the highest peak of power the final, the most fearful pair embracing: Terror and Silence. And between them, a Flame. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
In this lightning moment when you walk the earth, your first duty, by enlarging your ego, is to live through the endless march, both visible and invisible, of your own being. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. View quote
Frederick Douglass
When the first savage saw his hut destroyed by a bolt of lightning, he fell down upon his face in terror. He had no conception of natural forces, of laws of electricity ; he saw this event as the act of an individual intelligence. View quote
Upton Sinclair
It would be all one experience, with all the senses opened wide, words, music, lights, sounds, touch - lightning. View quote
Tom Wolfe
The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder. View quote
George Santayana
Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have. View quote
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod; But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God; And from its force nor doors nor locks Can shield you,-'t is the ballot-box. View quote
John Pierpont
Oh, the air is sultry and pregnant with lightning. And therefore we call to our deluded brothers: Repent, repent, the Kingdom of the Lord is at hand! View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Only the misapprehension that [Paglia] can be wise like lightning could explain her brief appearance, in Inside Deep Throat, to tell us that the cultural artefact in question was 'an epochal moment in the history of modern sexuality.' On the contrary, it was a moronic moment in the history of exploitation movies made by people so untalented that they can't even be convincing when they masturbate. View quote
Clive James
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. View quote
Bill Bryson
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. View quote
Lewis Thomas