Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination? — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines. — Clayton Snyder Copy Share Image
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant,… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all… — Doug Harvey Copy Share Image
The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable,… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads,… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you. — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
I've never been starstruck but I may have wanted to strike a star once or twice. — Grumpy Cat Copy Share Image
Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
