Quotes About Lightning

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

a storm that walked on legs of lightning, dragging its shaggy belly over the fields.

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.

It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.

On 2 July 1761, Miran, the 'abominable', murderous, debauchee son of Mir Jafar, was killed – allegedly by a chance sudden strike of lightning while returning from the campaign against Shah Alam. According to John Caillaud, who was present in the camp, 'the young nabob, was lying asleep in his tent at midnight.

You get into a habit of low expectations, which gives you a sort of contentment. You go through life as if through a mist, seeing little farther than your nose and scorning all that only appears wispy and faint. Then a bolt of lightning splits the mist and gives you a glimpse of all you might be missing.

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.

God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.

Lightening falls, all you can do is- pray God that it doesn't fall on you.

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

I can't bring myself to believe in a God with a personality like my own. I base that on the paucity of lightning attacks on people who deserve it.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

There's a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he's a good conductor?

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

Be Like Lightning Which Has The Power To Animate Or Destroy Life.... It's Up To You Which Side You Wanna Take....

It was no longer her sleeping room, it was our sleeping room now. We made friends the night it thundered, big claps of it and forked lightning flared then sizzled inside the room, she cowering under my bed, terrified that Eric Eric, the man with the clapper who broke up the big ships in the harbor in Malmo, was coming for her.

his sword and held it high above him. Suddenly, lightning struck the sword and Steve felt