#lightning

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ↗

— Mark Twain

#between #bug #difference #lightning #right

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. ↗

— Eden Ahbez

#being #earth #galaxies #heaven #i

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#heaven #lightning #made #marriages #say

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning. ↗

— James Otis

#dear #eternity #flash #god #god almighty

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

#contain #ever #lightning #poetry #sword

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

#along #believe #come #exist #existed

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#god #law #lightning #like #mills

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#god #gods #lightning #trees #wisdom