It must be done like lightning.

Move like a beam of light; Fly like lightning, Strike like thunder, Whirl in circles around A stable center.

The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning, before the enemy has time to react, deep into his rear.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Terrorists strike like lightning- hard, fast, and without warning.

You must be swift as the wind, dense as the forest, rapacious as fire, steadfast like a mountain, mysterious as night and mighty as thunder.

...fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both sart out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly.

To win, you've got to plan carefully and then make war with the speed of lightning.

What! Think you that my flashes show me Only in lightnings to excel? Believe me, friends, you do not know me, For I can thunder quite as well.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

"...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)"

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.

Pity is the messenger of Love
as lightning is of thunder.

Mix together saltpetre, luru vopo vir con utriet [powdered charcoal], and sulphur, and you will make thunder and lightning, if you know the method of mixing them.