Voltaire Quotes

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

I've never been struck by lightning as far as I know, so the Higher Power is treating me as well as even those people who love him very much.

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.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

Put yourself in the path of lightning.

Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind.

In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?" Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is . . . I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last. Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back.

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

A good messenger expects to get shot.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.