I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill… — Tom Monaghan Copy Share Image
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot. — Richard Sharp Copy Share Image
“They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky… — Solon Copy Share Image
When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me,… — Wayne Gretzky Copy Share Image
The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, "Allahu Akbar," because this… — Mohamed Atta Copy Share Image
How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
A bird can fly as high as it wants but it eventually has to come down to earth and get some water...… — Kimbo Slice Copy Share Image
Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We are not a nation of strikes and inaction. We will not be preached at by militant unionists with a crap whippet… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in… — Shaka Copy Share Image
Once it gets to two strikes, it's time to battle, put something in play, and try to get the job done. — Aaron Judge Copy Share Image
I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me… — Todd Rokita Copy Share Image
The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
