Quotes by Lightning Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment. Abraham Maslow lightningcreativitymoments 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. Albert Schweitzer lightningdarknesstogether Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning. Aldo Leopold lightningtestsmen I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame. Alexander Smith lightningdeedsmen Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind. Alfred de Musset lightningnaturalmind One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning. Alice Munro lightningnextdoe I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again! Amy Hempel lightningdarkrivers He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song. Ann Aguirre bladeslightningsong Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants. Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune lightningtyrantssky Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning. Arthur Schopenhauer labyrinthobscuritylightning The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears. Avicenna lightningdisappearbrilliant Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains. Baltasar Gracian lightningmountainstrikes I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones. Ben Harper boneslightningsunset If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder. Ben Mendelsohn thundercrashlightning Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow? Benjamin Butler lightningstormair Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts. Benjamin Franklin lightningtreemen An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building. Benjamin Franklin lightningironscience No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled. Berthold Auerbach lightningeyelooks 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. Bertrand Russell england-and-americalightningsupport There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. Bill Bryson rolling-alonglightningage1234567891011»
