Quotes for All
In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is our responsibility to ensure that these advances are used for positive medical breakthroughs, and not allowed to restrict rights or limit access to health insurance or job opportunities. Evan Bayh
The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple. Evan Esar
Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation. Eva Hoffman
This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose. Eugen Herrigel
A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled. Eudora Welty
The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn’t any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind. Eugene Fitch Ware
Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the only right way with literature, with study, with people or with anything else: to let it all soak in, to let it all mature slowly inside you until it has … Read more
The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul. Etta James
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react. Erwin Rommel
All truth has to be expressed in sentences… the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning. Ernest Fenollosa