Stroke Quotes

345 quotes by 299 authors

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke! — Walt Whitman
If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee… — Pierre Loti
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same… — Charlotte Bronte
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give… — Daniel Dennett
A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think… — Kirk Douglas
Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every… — Jack Nicklaus
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord. — Charles Scott Sherrington
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When… — Ian Tattersall
What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It… — James Joseph Sylvester
Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that… — Fernando Araujo Perdomo
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still… — Hilma af Klint
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the… — Ludwig Boltzmann
With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each promise made in… — Belinda Carlisle
People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to… — Henry Rollins
If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much… — Ehud Barak
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's… — Patricia Lee Gauch
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. — Richard M. Nixon
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and… — Henry Ward Beecher

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