Best Striking Qoutes
328 Striking quotes by 288 unique authors
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An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
— Hilary Duff
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Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem.…
— Harper Lee
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Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that…
— Jane Austen
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit,…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For…
— Noam Chomsky
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A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.
— C.S. Lewis
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the…
— Edward Abbey
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The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of…
— Randy Alcorn
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...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it…
— Werner Heisenberg
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I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you,…
— Marcel Proust
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Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the…
— Lisa Ann Sandell
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For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Banality is sometimes striking.
— Marguerite Duras
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As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing…
— David Deida
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The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All right, you got that out of your system. Can I get back in the boat without you striking me again? Or should I stay…
— Jeaniene Frost
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The most striking difference between little ones and grownups is that little ones cannot worry, and they cannot worry because they have no past and…
— Maria von Trapp
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Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need…
— Frances Mayes
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