Phyllis Bottome Quotes

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?

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.

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

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.

Put yourself in the path of lightning.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

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

In a war without aim, you tend not to aim. You close your eyes, close your heart. The consequences become hit or miss in the most literal sense.

The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.

Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

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.

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

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.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth.