LIGHTNING QUOTES II
quotations about lightning
Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
DANIEL BOONE
attributed, Day's Collacon
oh now feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it
LIVE
"Lightning Crashes", Throwing Copper
It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
I hate it when storm clouds roll in, heralded by dazzling claps of thunder and lightning that boast an ocean of tears. This majestic performance of bad temper manages to overshadow my pathetic attempts at pouting. No one broods like Mother Nature, hence she steals all the attention I was sulking after.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Smile Anyway
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail
You know I'm bad
MUHAMMAD ALI
a poem written after his match with George Foreman, 1974
We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
NORMAN MAILER
Ancient Evenings
Lightning my pilot sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder,
It struggles and howls at fits;
Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion,
This pilot is guiding me,
Lured by the love of the genii that move
In the depths of the purple sea;
Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,
Over the lakes and the plains,
Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile,
Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
"The Cloud"
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
AVICENNA
attributed, Day's Collacon
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature.
EMMA GOLDMAN
"Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty", Anarchism and Other Essays
Like the lightning, which doth cease to be,
Ere one can say--It lightens!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
WILLIE TYLER
attributed, Seventeenth Century Review
Thunder and lightning among the clouds are matched by storms of passion within me as terrible as they.
FRANK CRANE
"The Part of Me That Doubts", Four Minute Essays
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.
HARRY HERSHFIELD
Now I'll Tell One
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
MARK TWAIN
Twain: Wit and Wisecracks
If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.
PHILIP YANCEY
Disappointment with God
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
LAO TZU
attributed, The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
The lightning comes on a mission of mercy, bearing healing in its train.
MISS J. TRUMBULL
attributed, Day's Collacon
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder,
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick, cross lightning.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
The lightning flashing in the heavens is like the fire of musketry from a hostile army.
CORA AGNEW
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
FLAMMARION
attributed, The Alkaloidal Clinic, Volume 12