Striking Quotes

328 Striking quotes by 288 unique authors

The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down… — Kenny Smith
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows… — Albertus Magnus
Versatile Tangerine is striking enough to stand on its own and adds vitality to a printed pattern. Good natured and friendly, but with a tangy… — Leatrice Eiseman
Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at… — T. Colin Campbell
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so… — Donald Kagan
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Start the week with a striking indigo skirt paired with an embroidered suede moto jacket. — Lubov Azria
What if someone hurts you with a weapon? Wait. Think it over. You probably feel angry. That's normal. But wasn't it the stick striking your… — Sylvia Boorstein
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who… — Henry David Thoreau
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the… — Winston Churchill
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a… — John Updike
It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed… — Mencius
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn,… — Luc de Clapiers
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character… — Susan Sontag
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. — Julia Leigh
I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When… — Elizabeth Strout
It's tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It's no fun. It's embarrassing. But there really isn't anything I can do. It's… — Jim Thome
I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really… — Eleanor Roosevelt
For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the… — Max von Laue
The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so… — Gabriel Marcel
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours. — James Martineau
Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the… — Michael Faraday

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