Lightning Rod Quotes

#1. He bats like a lightning rod.

W.P. Kinsella

#2. The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Many men want wealth,
not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

John Turner

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

Howard Stern

#6. We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

Julian Assange

#7. Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

Eva Hoffman

#8. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence

Doug McLeod

#9. When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.

Jack Black

#10. Nothing is a stronger cultural lightning rod than two needles and a ball of yarn. But

Clara Parkes

#11. The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#12. Some primitive societies avoid striking out at the true guilty party because it might awaken the spirit of vengeance. Channeling violence toward a sacrificial victim as if toward a lightning rod doubtless stops violence, but it's not very pretty.

Rene Girard

#13. I got a letter from a lightning rod company this morning trying to out the fear of God in me, but with small success. Lightning seems to have lost its menace. Compared to what is going on on earth today, heaven's firebrands are penny fireworks with wet fuses.

E.B. White

#14. When people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew ...

John Geddes

#15. Attacking a lightning rod doesn't make you lightning ...
Regarding Barack Obama

T. Rafael Cimino

#16. As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.

John Chaney

#17. She hadn't seen him since yesterday, and Charlotte did not understand the sensation that gripped her at the sight of him.
As if she were a lightning rod, waiting for the storm above to strike. As if she had lost all control over her life and was thrown into chaos.

Michelle Diener

#18. When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Bertrand Russell

#19. I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Tom Wolfe

#20. If you wake up in some field during a storm with an iron bar glued to your hand, obviously someone wants you to be a lightning rod.

Ryan Harding

#21. At the time of our conversations, Chelsea Manning was 22 years of age - my own age when I made the choice to surrender to federal authorities ... I saw someone very familiar that day, and suddenly felt very old.

Adrian Lamo

#22. I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.

Albertus Magnus

#23. I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

Zac Goldsmith

#24. Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

Graham Parker

#25. I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

Tea Leoni

#26. To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#27. We deserved our chance at life. At love. At figuring out what any of this meant. It was far from a romance. But it was still a love story. And it was ours. I was going to stop at nothing until we had our happy ending.

T.M. Frazier

#28. Today's market action is driven by the slower GDP growth rate. Despite oil being higher, I think the GDP kind of overruled everything and just makes the market feel better about what the Fed is going to do, or rather not do.

L'Wren Scott