A Quote by Hermann Hesse

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

Hermann Hesse

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Lightning Mere Nothing Strikes

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Hermann Hesse
German - Novelist
July 2, 1877 - August 9, 1962

There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

Soren Kierkegaard

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

F. Scott Fitzgerald

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

Kathi Appelt

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Horace

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Ovid

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Theodore Sturgeon

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

Phyllis Bottome

If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.

Doc Bundy

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.

Harry Hershfield

Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt that severs the source of my life. -Soifon

Tite Kubo

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

Baltasar Gracian

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.

Alfred North Whitehead

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