#lightning

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#black #bright #bursts #cloud #coming

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#lifetime #lightning #man #manages #out

As the storm came nearer I began to realize that I hadn't made the most of my three years' immunity. In fact, I hadn't done a single thing about cleaning up my life. I was, if anything, an even more logical target for lightning than the last time I was in range. And thunderstorms don't creep up on you at seven o'clock in the morning in a non-thunderstorm country for nothing, you know. I lined up a rather panicky schedule of reforms... But as the storm suddenly petered out and went off in the other direction nothing much has come out of it yet. I may have three years more, and these things can't be rushed. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#life

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

— Mary Stewart

#god #law #lightning #like #mills

Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#lightning #nature #rain #thunder #wind

If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#lightning #humor

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. ↗

— Mark Twain

#good #impressive #lightning #thunder #work

My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#lightning #name

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#awe #character #elements #fire #forces

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning. ↗

— Black Elk

#breathed #i #lightning