“A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
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American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968Related quotes
“A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.”
Hermann Hesse book Steppenwolf
Source: Steppenwolf (1927), p. 56
Context: A thousand such possibilities await him. His fate brings them on, leaving him no choice; for those outside of the bourgeoisie live in the atmosphere of these magic possibilities. A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Heartbreak Warfare
Song lyrics, Battle Studies (2009)
“Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?”
Theodore Sturgeon book E Pluribus Unicorn
Source: E Pluribus Unicorn
“Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another?”
Patrick Modiano (1945) French writer
P 86
The Search Warrant (2000)
“Oh, talk about lightning striking twice. Another goal scrubbed out for the United States.”
Ian Darke (1950) British association football and boxing commentator
United States v. Algeria http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=DALDkkXodRU (23 June 2010). <br class="br">2010s, 2010, 2010 FIFA World Cup
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
