Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes… — Ferdinand Hodler Copy Share Image
Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers. — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to… — Marco Pirroni Copy Share Image
One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction… — Chauncey Guy Suits Copy Share Image
Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people's desire to see their… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than… — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace? — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike: you just go in every day and do it really half assed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth? — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect. — Robin Day Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It's become extremely difficult to speak to active ISIS members now. I was speaking to them in 2015, and the last one… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
An earthquake strikes Haiti, and care packages from America are among the first to arrive - and not far behind are former… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
