When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes. — Joe Abercrombie 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
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect. — Robin Day 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
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
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
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
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down,… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I don't think that the administration is being particularly honest with the American people about what this is going to cost in… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Valkyrie patted Fletcher’s arm. “Don’t worry,” she said. “If the bad man comes, I’ll protect you.” “If the bad man comes,” Fletcher… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have a scene that strikes me, I just feel like writing a scene, a mini-story that seems like it might… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are… — David J. Lieberman 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
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
“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
It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis. — Kate Flannery Copy Share Image
You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own. — Connie Mack Copy Share Image
