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Letter "L" » lightning
«My dear, he sounds like all plug and no spark to me, you know, all bug and no lightning»
Author: Bill Balance
| Keywords:
bug, know-all, lightning, lightning bug, plug, plugging, plug in, spark
«More than 3 million square miles of territory to protect, 10 thousand miles of border to guard and a fence to build 10, 11 or 12 miles high. It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.»
Author: Gen Ben Chidlaw
| Keywords:
border, fence, lightning, square, square mile, square miles, territory, thunder
«Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.»
«Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.»
Author: John Muir
| Keywords:
asunder, centuries, chose, earthquake, earthquakes, erode, eroded, erodes, eroding, lightning, noiselessly, rend, snow, split, stormy, tender, tool, torrent, unnumbered
«Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Cheerfulness
| Keywords:
cheerfulness, daylight, daylights, fills, flash, glitters, gloom, in the mind, lightning, mirth, perpetual, serenity, steady
«Pessimism - Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.»
Author: Larry Kersten
(Author, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
cloud, each year, hundreds, kills, lightning, lining, pessimism, silver, silver lining
«One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
flashes, formed, hears, in a flash, lightning, of necessity, unfalteringly
«I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| Keywords:
countryside, immediately, lasts, lightning, like thunder, roamed, roaming, roams, searching, The Eye, thunder, thundered, thundering, visible
«Lightning never strikes twice (in the same place)»
«In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abyss, aloft, ascent, black eye, black ice, black people, bold, daringly, disappear, eagles, eyed, furious, go forward, go up, haste, hewing, hurricane, hurricanes, ice, increases, in haste, ladder, lightning, nevertheless, persevere, plays, precipices, pursue, raging, reappear, reappeared, reappears, retrace, specks, step forward, The Abyss, The Clouds, The Eagles, The Hurricane, the Mountain, trap, undertake, uneven, walk-on, weariness, yawning, yawns
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