#bolt

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#bolt #done #fear #i #journey

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. ↗

— Walter Scott

#bolt #hour #once #ought #over

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws. ↗

— Mark Shields

#bolton #broken #committee #consolation #endorsement

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#astonishing #bolt #cell #cooled #derived

Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides. ↗

— Mark Lawrenson

#days #established #other #premiership #respected

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study] ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#death #meteors #natural-phenomena #news #sensations

As for understanding, I understand that you are the best man that I ever met, or am likely to; And, if you go...Well, God knows why I suppose. Though as God's my witness God's kept deadly quiet about it! ↗

— character Alice More in A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt

#alice-more #god #love #robert-bolt #understanding

I knew I would be running with so many people watching all over the world because of him. People love Bolt. He has many fans out there because of his great achievements and breaking world records in Olympics. I've done the same and it's a great honour. I'm happy and I'm happy for him. ↗

— David Rudisha

#because #bolt #breaking #done #fans

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#bolts #i #nuts #procedure #streets