A Quote by James Gates Percival
Thought can wing its way
Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam
That hastens on the pinions of the morn.
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Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
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.
The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.
True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.
Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.
I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night i lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very support for who I am as a person
I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.
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