Stroke Quotes

345 quotes by 299 authors

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This… — Hilary Mantel
I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk… — Sara Gruen
She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut… — Scott Westerfeld
A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog,… — Wislawa Szymborska
In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at… — Barbara Kingsolver
But Harry . . . even if we had met and married three years ago, youâ€™d still say it wasnâ€™t enough time.â€ â€œYouâ€™re right. I… — Lisa Kleypas
Donâ€™t worry if I lay my head back and start to snore while weâ€™re flying. Itâ€™s normal. Iâ€™m just here in case Jake has a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
My father looked like he was having a strokeâ€” not that Mel seemed to notice because he just kept talking. â€œPatrick needs a ride. No… — Elizabeth Scott
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, itâ€™s not its fault. Thatâ€™s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought:… — Arthur Rimbaud
I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having a sarcasm stroke.… — MaryJanice Davidson
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under… — Doris Lessing
Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how… — Bill Bryson
Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing… — Lynne Truss
He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell. — J.R.R. Tolkien
So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe… — Tim Wise
I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation… — Laurell K. Hamilton
And then, as the room went black, I was suddenly hyperaware that Edward was sitting less than an inch from me. I was stunned by… — Stephenie Meyer
And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a… — Angela Carter
Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither. — Diana Gabaldon

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299 authors contributed a total of 345 Stroke Quotes, led by these top contributors: