Striking Quotes

328 Striking quotes by 288 unique authors

Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot… — Richard Branson
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the… — Max Lerner
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate… — Niels Kaj Jerne
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken… — James Madison
If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if… — Howard Zinn
Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason...Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side… — Ann Coulter
I lift weights, but that's not my main focus. I'm a fighter now, and I want to evolve and make myself a well-rounded fighter, so… — Brock Lesnar
He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never will… — Frederic Tudor
One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or… — Gichin Funakoshi
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of… — Thomas Carlyle
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life. — Edward Abbey
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to… — John Dewey
Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable. — Anatoly Karpov
When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful… — Abdul Kalam
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter,… — James Boswell
It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we… — James M. Kouzes
It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity… — Unknown Author
The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased… — B. H. Liddell Hart
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. — Ted Nelson
It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit in the head… — Unknown Author
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it… — Oliver Cromwell
To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history and in the better days that lie ahead… — Bernard Law Montgomery
The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring, — Paul Wolfowitz
I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying… — Paul Wolfowitz

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