Striking Quotes

328 Striking quotes by 288 unique authors

More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and… — Haruki Murakami
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go… — Noam Chomsky
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a… — George Orwell
Beautiful I would never be. Striking, that I could manage. — Ilona Andrews
Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever. — Ingmar Bergman
I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and sing softly and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Larger than life itself, and I can’t even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine. — Katy Evans
As I’d observed, it was clear that Rose was willing to do anything and fight anyone to protect her friend. I admired that—I admired that… — Richelle Mead
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when… — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon
I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness.… — Leigh Hunt
One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that… — Henry Norris Russell
My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out, sometimes by striking them out. — Tom Seaver
The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic… — Eugene Jarecki
I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields. — William Shatner
A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow… — John Boyle O'Reilly
Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than the spacious, open… — William Cullen Bryant
Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned on… — John Tyler Bonner
Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder… — Noam Chomsky
Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily. — Srikumar Rao
The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a… — James Howard Kunstler
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the… — Richard Flanagan
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. — Babe Ruth

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