Stroke Quotes
345 quotes by 299 authors
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By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain…
— Hugh Prather
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Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its…
— Alan Moore
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A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the…
— Aldo Leopold
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Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again,…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people…
— Brandon Sanderson
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This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger…
— Cornelia Funke
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Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful,…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
— Dalai Lama
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your name your name, paragal, in the old toung, means 'one of pure light' and so you once were. but know this: when your stroke…
— Wayne Thomas Batson
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Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work…
— Atul Gawande
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Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains…
— Salman Rushdie
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But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke…
— Richard Matheson
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A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room…
— Sara Gruen
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Man, you weigh a freaking ton. What have you been eating, rocks?" * Max: "Why, is your head missing some?" o Chapter 68 p. 214…
— James Patterson
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I don't just like sexual double entendres I love them, I stroke them, I milk them, I spank them when they're naughty.
— Craig Ferguson
Who Wrote These Stroke Quotes
299 authors contributed a total of 345 Stroke Quotes, led by these top contributors: