If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.

You realize how many times lightning has to strike in order for you to be sitting here?

The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

What I saw in Black Lightning, Jefferson Pierce, even the villains, are aspects of myself.

One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning.

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

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

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

The chance of a criminal getting caught, is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning.

One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

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

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

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

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.

Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

She briefly wished she did have some sort of magic so she could shoot a bolt of lightning through his head.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

You're more likely to see someone fatally struck by lightning than witness a case of in-person voter fraud.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

People are saying that Anderson Cooper could be the new Oprah. And then these people are struck by lightning.

Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.

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