#lightning

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. ↗

— Ken Kesey

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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ↗

— Ben Stein

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I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do. ↗

— Howard Stern

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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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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. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. ↗

— Willie Tyler

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If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. ↗

— Lee Trevino

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Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there. ↗

— John Turner

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