Top 46 When Lightning Strikes Quotes
#1. When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
Phyllis Bottome
#2. Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.
Thomas Harris
#3. They say lightning never strikes in the same place twice.
They lied.
Lani Wendt Young
#4. Lightning only strikes once," my dad said. "And when it hits, you know.
Sarah Mlynowski
#5. Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?
Milarepa
#7. Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#8. It is immoral that a mattress should have so much power. Triumph of that which yields over that which strikes with lightning. But never mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!
Victor Hugo
#10. Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?
Plutarch
#11. If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.
Doc Bundy
#12. We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these are the truest moments of their lives.
Andrew Sean Greer
#13. During the great storm the lightning strikes multiplied in frequency and ferocity. It seemed like a new kind of lightning, not just electrical but eschatological.
Salman Rushdie
#14. Lightning always strikes in the same place twice," said Mma Ramotswe. "Whatever people say to the contrary.
Alexander McCall Smith
#15. In the last fifteen minutes, she'd knocked him flat on his back, reduced him to speechlessness, and for the first time in his life, made him wonder if lightning strikes from fate weren't metaphysical bullshit.
Angel Payne
#17. If lightning strikes a rotten tree and it collapses, it's not the fault of the lightning.
Ayn Rand
#18. In fairy tales, love strikes like lightning. In real life, lightning burns. It can even kill you.
Neil Strauss
#20. Who sings of all of Love's eternity
Who shines so bright
In all the songs of Love's unending spells?
Holy lightning strikes all that's evil
Teaching us to love for goodness sake.
Hear the music of Love Eternal
Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
Jon Anderson
#21. 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
#22. Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
Daniel Boone
#23. There is a place in Venezuela where lightning strikes 280 times per hour, 160 nights a year: I imagine that this is a place in my heart. The place which lit up when I first saw your beautiful face. The place where untold adventures await - as I entertain the idea of playfully cavorting with you.
Cheri Bauer
#24. So, what are you going to do about it?"
"Watch this!"
"Oh, that's just freaking great. 'Watch this!' The two most dangerous words in the English language. I'm getting out of here before lightning strikes.
Theodore Jerome Cohen
#25. Don't be afraid of me, Sahara." Bending his head, he spoke with his lips against hers, the contact igniting a thousand tiny lightning strikes in her blood. "I'd line the streets with bodies before I'd ever hurt you.
Nalini Singh
#26. We're kindling amid lightning strikes, a lit match and dry wood, fire danger signs and a forest waiting to be burned.
Nicola Yoon
#27. Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life.
Tista Ray
#28. Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
Horace
#29. Oh this is how it starts lightning strikes your heart, and it goes off like a gun, brighter than the sun ...
Colbie Caillat
#30. Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.
Mary Doria Russell
#32. For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#33. Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt that severs the source of my life. -Soifon
Tite Kubo
#34. The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.
Mark Twain
#35. Love is like lightning. You never see it coming. If it strikes you, you know it instantly and it will forever leave its mark.
Karen Ranney
#36. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
it doesn't have to.
Harry Hershfield
#37. The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds;
High towers fall with a heavier crash;
And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Horace
#38. When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.
Ovid
#39. You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?
Meg Cabot
#40. A mere nothing suffices - and the lightning strikes.
Hermann Hesse
#41. Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.
Baltasar Gracian
#42. Late
for the present, I suppose
accentuated each time
you see, quick enough
this fraction of earth
underfoot
that upright speech
imprints,
like the whole of being
resumes
We've hit on something like lightning strikes
Deborah Heissler
#43. They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.
Kathi Appelt
#44. Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
Theodore Sturgeon
#45. The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?
Kalki Krishnamurthy
#46. Best friends are together through it all. Like soil & roots. One needing the other through chilling winters, scorching summers, through hailstorms & lightning Strikes. They weather it together.
Lisa Schroeder
