Striking Quotes

328 Striking quotes by 288 unique authors

As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit his… — Hilari Bell
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us. — Marcel Proust
What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual… — Richard Russo
Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads. — Sheri L. Dew
At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are… — Jane Austen
He's got the whole bad-boy-in-need-of-redemption thing going on, but the catch is, most bad boys don't want redemption. They like being bad. They like the… — Becca Fitzpatrick
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky,… — Roald Dahl
There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer. — Angela Carter
The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You… — E. Stanley Jones
Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About: - Titanic sinking again. - Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda. - Titanic… — Jim Benton
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling… — Louisa May Alcott
Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard… — Patrick Rothfuss
We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on… — Ann Aguirre
She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was… — Virginia Woolf
Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and… — Dave Barry
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral… — Sigmund Freud
There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely… — Maggie Stiefvater
There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its… — Sarah Dessen
It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making… — Sarah Dessen
As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the… — Rachel Carson
I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Kate seemed to have doubled in size. She had drawn back her broad shoulders and set her jaw, and something in the stance called to… — Trenton Lee Stewart
Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her… — Steig Larsson
Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard… — Emily Giffin
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in… — Thomas Hardy

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