To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men. — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin Copy Share Image
Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I got my tubes tied last fall, at age 45. . ... After 33 years or so, I struggled to gain control… — Marion Winik Copy Share Image
When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
There's always the sense that you should strike while the iron's hot and while there are all these opportunities, but that's not… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
At the time there was a hospital strike in New York and the Catholic hospitals were part of a general consortium, and… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Research has convincingly demonstrated that using the "rod" creates children who are not more obedient but who are instead simplymore angry and… — Julius Segal Copy Share Image
I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you. — Jerry Savelle Copy Share Image
For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go… — Suzy Parker Copy Share Image