In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right. — Yannick Noah Copy Share Image
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit… — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image
To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can… — Rusty Schweickart 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
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
Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO… — Vladimir Yakunin Copy Share Image
Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
