Striking Quotes

328 Striking quotes by 288 unique authors

One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events… — Warren Weaver
War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of… — Zainab Salbi
Annie Lalley is one of the funniest and most likable personalities you'll ever see on stage --which makes the depth of her songwriting all the… — Pierce Pettis
It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking… — Ville Valo
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive… — Alasdair MacIntyre
In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the… — Forrest Gander
He's a complete fighter. He has some flaws, of course, but he has a good stand up game, good takedowns and a good ground game.… — Lyoto Machida
But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot iron, it is… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no justification for killing… — Joanne Stepaniak
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In… — Alfred Einstein
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument. — Tryon Edwards
My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and -- of course -- heart. This is an extraordinary… — Nova Ren Suma
In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius,… — Ted Sizer
Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory… — Murray Gell-Mann
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the… — C L R James
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal,… — Barbara Tuchman
In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Perhaps the most striking thing about the 2015 State of the Union address was not the president at the podium but the audience in the… — Byron York
Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out… — Margaret Bourke-White
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. — George Meredith
I was in a very deep state of shock after that. I had raised my horse since he was six months old and he was… — Jeff Miller
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there… — Peter Kreeft
The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No… — Robert Jastrow

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