Lightning Quotes - Page 5

If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

Love is a clash of lightnings

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.

The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

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.

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

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

Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

The moment of a miracle is unending lightning.

There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!