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Quotes About Lightning

While I was living in New York a friend and I flew to Miami and travelled through a storm. I could see lightning strikes through the window. I grabbed my friend's hand tightly and kept repeating: 'We're going to die! We're going to die!' Thank goodness he was there as I don't know what I'd have done if I was on my own.
~ Emma Willis
The Transfiguration is the summer lightning of the coming Resurrection. Also of our own resurrection, for we too are to partake
~ Romano Guardini
This is how Heaven works. They're practical. We are always looking for rays of light. For lightning bolts or burning bushes. But God is a worker, like us. He made the world — He didn't hire poor Indios to build it for him! God has worker's hands. Just remember — angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
I love your eyes, my darling friend, Their play so passionate and bright'ning, When a sudden stare up you send, And like a heaven-blown lightning, It'd take in all from end to end But there's more that I admire: Your eyes when they're downcast In bursts of love-inspired fire And through the eyelash goes fast A somber, dull call of desire..
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Your chances of getting hit by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!" —Johnny carson
~ Ann Brashares
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Turn them into summer lightning! When spirits injure and abuse us, Magic must step in to save us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's a hard point connection. USB-C or Lightning?" Harry took out his phone and handed it to her. "USB-C." The
~ John Birmingham
You still carrying an arsenal in the trunk of your car?" "Why, you need something?" "No, but if your car is hit by lightning I'll know where my lawn went.
~ John Connolly
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
~ William Faulkner
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
~ Alexander Pope
With the frost he kindled fire; Drove the snakes from brake and brier, Hurling out the writhing brood With the lightning of his rood.
~ Edwin Markham
Every so often, a lightning flash would reveal us to each other, and the expression on his face - so rapt, so helpless, so utterly mine - was the most beautiful thing I ever expected to see in my life.
~ April Lindner
A fickle goddess Thought at times-- Try ne'er so hard we catch her not. We try to think: 'tis all in vain-- Imprisoned never is a thought. Like lightning flashing through the clouds, It comes--a light, and then is gone, A star which falls adown through space, Again it comes as morning dawn.
~ ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.
~ Chuck Feeney
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.
~ Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.
~ Frederick Douglass
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.
~ Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.
~ Frederick Douglass
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves. *** Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue. Where is the frenzy with which you should be inoculated. Behold. I give you the Ubermensch. He is this lightning. He is this frenzy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.-
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche