Top 35 Quotes About Thunderbolts
#1. At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.
Harold Holzer
#2. Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?
Euripides
#3. The test! It was as if they believed the test was an infallible superbeing that had descended to earth on a great space ark surrounded by thunderbolts of perfection.
Gordon Korman
#4. Some of the pilgrims behind the stretcher carried his arms - two shot-guns, a heavy rifle, and a light revolver-carbine - the thunderbolts of that pitiful Jupiter.
Joseph Conrad
#5. Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
Victor Hugo
#6. It is a bad year for kings," said Gondy, shaking his head; "look at England, madame."
"Yes; but fortunately we have no Oliver Cromwell in France," replied the Queen.
"Who knows?" said Gondy; "such men are like thunderbolts - one recognized them only when they have struck.
Alexandre Dumas
#7. If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.
Ovid
#8. I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg ... I am here to demand my rights, and to hurl thunderbolts at the men who would dare to cross the threshold of my manhood.
Henry McNeal Turner
#9. Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#10. Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!
Swami Vivekananda
#11. In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#12. Sometimes people just need thunderbolts. Thunderbolts to climb like stairs. Sometimes people just need a talisman. A promise in the lectern of their hands.
Matt Ferrara
#13. Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.
Stacy Aumonier
#14. Cotton rows crisscross the world
And dead-tired nights of yearning
Thunderbolts on leather strops
And all my body burning
Sugar cane reach up to God
And every baby crying
Shame a blanket of my night
And all my days are dying
Maya Angelou
#15. Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.
Esther M. Friesner
#16. Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.
Maximilien De Robespierre
#17. Love was not thunderbolts but a meandering river, an accumulation of accidents, the momentum of details.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#18. It is also said that Genghis Khan wanted to attack the kingdom of Prester John, but that the latter repulsed him by unleashing thunderbolts against his armies.
Rene Guenon
#19. I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a very dark comedy book, whereas 'Red Lanterns' is more of a cosmic saga that has some jokes every once in a while.
Charles Soule
#20. Sing out and say something, my hearties. Roar and pull, my thunderbolts! Beach me, beach me on their black backs, boys; only do that for me, and I'll sign over to you my Martha's Vineyard plantation, boys; including wife and children, boys.
Herman Melville
#21. It is He who makes the lightning flash upon you, inspiring you with fear and hope, and gathers up the heavy clouds. The thunder sounds His praises, and the angels, too, in awe of him. He hurls his thunderbolts at whom He pleases. Yet the unbelievers wrangle about God.
Anonymous
#22. When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
Ernest Bramah
#23. There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt.
Paul Westhead
#24. My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for me, I want instruments that I play. And if I don't play them, I don't' want to have them sitting in a closet collecting dust.
Ronnie Montrose
#25. Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.
Deepak Chopra
#27. It was perfectly innocent.' That's what Gary Hart said. One day he's running for president, the next he's sitting in an office somewhere making paper-clip chains.
Tami Hoag
#28. Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher
will not indicate a favoring wind,
or avert the thunderbolt.
Charles Olson
#29. Handel understands effect better than any of us
when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#31. The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
Lucretius
#34. Ladies, let this be a lesson. People always say you need to be nice to nerds, because you might end up working for them some day. The same goes for nerdy guys who ask you out. You should be nice to them, because one day they might be smoking hot.
Rachel Van Dyken
#35. Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply.
Ilya Ehrenburg
