Lightning

Holy lightning strikes all that's evil
Teaching us to love for goodness sake. ~ Jon Anderson

Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity usually accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms; this page is for quotes about lightning, or where lightning is used as a metaphor.

Quotes

When lightning comes down, I can feel it wanting to come to me. Grandma said it was God. She said the white fire was God. ~ Victor Salva, in Powder

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~ Mark Twain

• 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, in "Loved by the Sun", from the movie Legend (1985) - (YouTube Video)

• Did you know that I was struck by lightning seven times?
  • Mr. Daws, oft-repeated question in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

• 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, in "Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur" as translated in Kalki : Selected Stories (1999)

• He seized the lightning from Heaven and the scepter from the Tyrants.
  • Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, on Benjamin Franklin, as quoted in The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Vol. X (March 1811)

• When a thunderstorm comes up, I can feel it inside. When lightning comes down, I can feel it wanting to come to me. Grandma said it was God. She said the white fire was God.
  • Victor Salva, in Powder (1993)

• The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
  • Mark Twain, as quoted in Deduction : Introductory Symbolic Logic (2002) by Daniel A. Bonevac, p. 56

• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work.
  • Mark Twain, as quoted in Living Like Benjamin : Making Dreams Come True (2007) by Brad Borden, p. 123