“Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?”
Source: E Pluribus Unicorn
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Theodore Sturgeon 44
American speculative fiction writer 1918–1985Related quotes
“We can't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
(British Pathé newsreel · They're Going To Get It - Roosevelt (1943) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_V6tL6QRQs)
1940s, State of the Union Address (1943)
Context: I cannot tell you when or where the United Nations are going to strike next in Europe. But we are going to strike — and strike hard. I cannot tell you whether we are going to hit them in Norway, or through the Low Countries, or in France, or through Sardinia or Sicily, or through the Balkans, or through Poland — or at several points simultaneously. But I can tell you that no matter where and when we strike by land, we and the British and the Russians will hit them from the air heavily and relentlessly. Day in and day out we shall heap tons upon tons of high explosives on their war factories and utilities and seaports.
Hitler and Mussolini will understand now the enormity of their miscalculations — that the Nazis would always have the advantage of superior air power as they did when they bombed Warsaw, and Rotterdam, and London and Coventry. That superiority has gone — forever.
Yes, we believe that the Nazis and the Fascists have asked for it — and they are going to get it.
“Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another?”
P 86
The Search Warrant (2000)