Quotes About Lightning

Bast's eyes were now the pale blue-white of lightning, his voice tight and fierce. "And I swear by the night and sky and the ever-moving moon: if you lead my master to despair, I will slit you open and splash around like a child in a puddle. I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

Kvothe shook his head. "No. It began at the University. I went to learn magic of the sort they talk about in stories. Magic like Taborlin the Great. I wanted to learn the name of the wind. I wanted fire and lightning. I wanted answers to ten thousand questions and access to their archives. But what I found at the University was much different than a story, and I was much dismayed.

Fault isn't the issue. A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

A great spider of lightning crawled across the sky,

They had a red scalp and two blond scalps, very long ones that waved and shook in the wind, and in that hair was the soul of the enemy held tight, tight. There was light all around them and all around their war horses and it was as beautiful and dangerous as the color of lightning.

The leprous corpse, touch'd by this spirit tender, Exhales itself in flowers of gentle breath; Like incarnations of the stars, when splendour Is chang'd to fragrance, they illumine death And mock the merry worm that wakes beneath; Nought we know, dies. Shall that alone which knows Be as a sword consum'd before the sheath By sightless lightning?—the intense atom glows A moment, then is quench'd in a most cold repose.

The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

Winter with its ink of showers and rain, with its pen of lightning and palm of clouds, wrote a letter of purple and blue across the beds of the garden. No artist in his cunning could measure his work beside it—and so, when earth longed for the sky it embroidered the spread of its furrows with stars.

So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt.

The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.

On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ramís horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ramís horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.

He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.

Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.

He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?

In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ëHere we areí?

He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.