Top 57 Thunderbolt Quotes
#1. The Shadow of the Emperor
The Hooded One
Who unmasked night
Who laid the stars like paving stones
Who rode the Thunderbolt
Down the star-cobbled path into day
Was Kane,
The Emperor's twin
Silent, as lightning is silent,
Before the thunder speaks.
Patricia A. McKillip
#2. The colour of fear is never dark or black; it has the colour of thunderbolt; usually white, but can appear in different hues depending on how the fear travels through to get inside your heart
Munia Khan
#3. If he was, somehow at the margin deficient, it was because the country did not rise to ask of him the performance of a thunderbolt. He gave what he was asked to give. And he leaves us (or "will leave") if not exactly bereft, lonely; lonely for the quintessential American. END.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#4. Handel understands effect better than any of us
when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#5. Cal's attraction to her was unstoppable - undeniable. Like a thunderbolt piercing his heart, it beat only for her and had since the first time he saw her.
CCX
The Jinn Cycle
Book Three
By Nini Church
Nini Church
#6. The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.
Charles Spurgeon
#7. My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
Swami Vivekananda
#8. Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher
will not indicate a favoring wind,
or avert the thunderbolt.
Charles Olson
#9. The first moment I saw my wife breastfeed our daughter minutes after birth, I was hit with a thunderbolt of understanding and awe for the miracle of it all, and I still feel that way.
David Alan Basche
#10. My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
Fernando Pessoa
#11. The second thunderbolt is found Where one-horned creatures Walk the ground. Its wicked magic must be foiled Before a special game is spoiled!
Rosie Banks
#12. Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
#13. He had escaped a thunderbolt, but he was still under a cloud.
G.K. Chesterton
#15. I thought love was - big and loud and sudden, like a thunderbolt. I didn't know it was deep and quiet and grew upon a woman slowly, until one day she realizes it's the very breath and smiles and tears of her life.
Dianne K. Salerni
#16. The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
Lucretius
#17. If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.
Ovid
#18. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
Sun Tzu
#19. A revolution such as ours is not a trial, but a clap
of thunder for the wicked. Good strikes like a thunderbolt, innocence is a flash of lightning - a flash of
lightning that brings justice. Even the pleasure-seekers - in fact, they above all - are
counterrevolutionaries.
Albert Camus
#20. If you want to get a sensual thunderbolt then you have got to be cocked, locked and ready to rock, doc. I find that whole milk and lots of Vitamin D help.
Ted Nugent
#21. As the sun disappeared below the horizon and its glare no longer reflected off a glassy sea, I thought of how beautiful the sunsets always were in the Pacific. They were even more beautiful than over Mobile Bay. Suddenly a thought hit me like a thunderbolt. Would I live to see the sunset tomorrow?
Eugene B. Sledge
#22. Brother, in these past two months I've sensed a new man in me, a new man has arisen in me! He was shut up inside me, but if it weren't for this thunderbolt, he never would have appeared.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#23. There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt.
Paul Westhead
#24. Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.
Chogyam Trungpa
#25. It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
Voltaire
#26. I actually think there are lots of good matches for each person, and they cross our paths all the time, but we're so wedded to the idea of love at first sight that we can miss the really great people who don't come with a thunderbolt attached.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#27. GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
Ambrose Bierce
#28. When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
Ernest Bramah
#29. My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. Love doesn't have to be like a thunderbolt; you can meet someone and fall in lov anytime. Sometimes it's just always been there... thing is... you never noticed...
S.M. Mala
#31. There was no thunderbolt, no quickening of the heart, but there was a sense of recognition.A familiarity about his face..
Judith Kinghorn
#32. My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#33. Jealousy hot flashes through my body, a thunderbolt crashing through.
Rachel Cohn
#34. The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.
Jamie Muir
#35. 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.
John Lyly
#36. 25 "Who has cleft a channel for the flood, Or a way for the thunderbolt,
Anonymous
#37. The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.
Jules Verne
#38. Claire jumped right into the story. "There was a Thunderbolt cable
Karin Slaughter
#39. An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.
Christopher Moore
#40. In a livid wet dress, under the tumbling mist ... had run ecstatically up that ridge above Moulinet to be felled there by a thunderbolt.
Vladimir Nabokov
#41. You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo
Mario Puzo
#42. I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study]
Guy De Maupassant
#43. She looked up at the whirling effulgent cloud, and thought, I brought down the fire from heaven; I have lived with glory. A thunderbolt struck from the sky and all was gone.
Mary Renault
#44. Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
John Gardner
#45. It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master break down doors to enter His own home? Without earthquake, or thunderclap: the flame has lit up the whole world from within.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#46. He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Alfred The Great
#47. A thunderbolt at her feet could hardly have surprised or annoyed her more. If
Anthony Trollope
#49. God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.
Martin Luther
#50. We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.
Ogden Nash
#51. One thunderbolt strikes
root through everything
Heraclitus
#52. Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.
Barack Obama
#53. When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing, firm as the mountains. As unfathomable as the clouds, move like a thunderbolt.
Sun Tzu
#54. The boundaries are not to be blurred. I was sent off, struck by his harshest thunderbolt, excommunication. In his eyes I am no longer a man of the cloth. But I yet feel the Lord's hand holding me up.
Yann Martel
#56. Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
John Brown
#57. Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.
Benjamin Franklin
