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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.
These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.
But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?
Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.
The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.
Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.
The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.
When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.
When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.
A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.
You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.
I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.
I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.
did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works
If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.
I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the lightning.
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.
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.
When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.
As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.
Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
I was lucky because when I'd done 'Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,' I had to have extensive weapons training.
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.
The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.
You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.
I would have to recommend the chorus of 'Lightning Crashes' for just about everyone that needs a little something, a little comeback.
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.
His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.
There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.
There were so many years that were going by at a lightning speed that it was so hard to kinda put our heads around what was happening to us.
The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
I've never been struck by lightning as far as I know, so the Higher Power is treating me as well as even those people who love him very much.
Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.