A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger. — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth, its angle strikes us in such a manner… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring… — George Will Copy Share Image
She saw Valentine's eyes as the sword hurtled toward her; it seemed like eons, though it could only have been a split… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As a child, he had hardened his heart and learned to take their punches. He had learned to spit back and take… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“As Hoffa put it, “Nobody can describe the sit-down strikes, the riots, the fights that took place in the state of Michigan,… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the… — Dmitriy Ustinov Copy Share Image
We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea. — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Oh Allah, strike the apostate rulers, Oh Allah, kill them one after the other, sparing none. — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Copy Share Image
And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. — Jimmy Cannon Copy Share Image
The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy. — Violeta Chamorro Copy Share Image
If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to… — George Brett Copy Share Image
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria. — Bruce Braley Copy Share Image
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me. — John Keats Copy Share Image
