Stricken Quotes

107 Stricken quotes by 97 unique authors

Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten,… — George Horace Lorimer
Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If… — Arcangela Tarabotti
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as… — Daniel Handler
The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist. — Alfred Polgar
All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it… — Robert Orben
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with… — William Osler
The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the inner… — Meghan O'Rourke
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of… — Alice Walker
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ;… — Chogyam Trungpa
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this… — Norm Dicks
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of… — Terry Pratchett
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are… — Milton Friedman
Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of… — Diane Ackerman
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. — Orson F. Whitney
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an… — Helen Keller
Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably… — Mark Twain
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. — Georges Duhamel
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?… — A. E. Housman
And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that… — Steven Millhauser
We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence. — William Allen White
In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others… — Diana Trilling

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