Quotes About Thunderbolt

Perhaps the scenes of travel conjure themselves up before me and pass and repass in my imagination all the more vividly, because I lead such a vegetable existence that a call to travel would fall upon me like a thunder-bolt.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.

He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Zap them, Bolt!" Immediately the thunderbolt took off after Hera and Poseidon. "No! Not them," Zeus called in the nick of time. "The Cronies!" That was what everyone called King Cronus's soldiers. Not to their faces, though, because they didn't like it one bit. The bolt screeched to a halt in midair. Then it switched directions and buzzed off toward the soldiers.

By the end of the Latin lesson he was a hard-line atheist, and to prove it, he marched determinedly into the school tuckshop during break and bought himself a ham sandwich. The flesh of the swine passed his lips for the first time that day, and the failure of the Almighty to strike him dead with a thunderbolt proved to him what he had long suspected: that there was nobody up there with thunderbolts to hurl.

This irrascible and implacable brute—this incarnate thunderbolt—this monster of the upper deep, I had seen reposing in the shade of an adjacent tree, dreaming dreams of conquest and glory.

Madness is not for everyone, but Maurice's proved the thunderbolt that dispels the clouds. The storm had been working up not for three days as he supposed, but for six years. It had brewed in the insecurities of being where no eye pierces, his surroundings had thickened it. It had burst and he had not died. The brilliancy of day was around him, he stood upon the mountain range that overshadows youth, he saw.

Madness is not for everyone, but Maurice's proved the thunderbolt that dispels the clouds.

I remember the moment it first hit me that my mother's memory was no longer the extraordinary phenomenon it had been all my life. The realisation came as a thunderbolt.

A thunderbolt at her feet could hardly have surprised or annoyed her more. If

Sunt fericiri în care nu mai crezi. Ele vin ca o lovitur? de tr?znet ?i te mistuie.

However portentous a fact may be, or even supernatural--if such facts exist--however solemnly a miracle may be done in sight of all, the lightning of that fact, the thunderbolt of that miracle is quickly swallowed up in the ocean of life, whose surface, scarcely stirred by the brief convulsion, returns to the level of its habitual flow.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study ]

May I remind you that you are speaking to someone capable of smiting you with a thunderbolt?" "Is there any point to flirting with a girl who is not capable of that?

Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest. In raiding and plundering be like fire, in immovability like a mountain. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

Independence Army (BIA) under Colonel Suzuki's enthusiastic supervision. Suzuki himself had taken the Burmese nom de guerre Bo Mogyo, meaning "the Thunderbolt," an astute choice that played on the (allegedly) old local prophecy that "the umbrella" (meaning "the British") would eventually be struck down by "the thunderbolt." Tokyo had yet to decide its Burma policy as both the

Or was some act of revenge still pending, some thunderbolt long cherished and prepared?

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

in a livid wet dress, under the tumbling mist... had run ecstatically up that ridge above Moulinet to be felled there by a thunderbolt.