Stroke Quotes

345 quotes by 299 authors

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most… — William E. Gladstone
Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool. — Paul Begala
I have had hundreds and hundreds of stroke cases. My methods cured them--when they were so stiff they were almost dead. — Richard M. Schulze
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness. — Rene Thom
If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck;… — Leonardo da Vinci
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a… — Norbert Wiener
Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends… — Marquis de Sade
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way… — David Hume
Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down]… — Alice Munro
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be… — Leonardo da Vinci
You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke. — Henri
When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt… — Lewis Gordon
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer… — John Burroughs
My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice… — Jill Bolte Taylor
Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last. — William Penn
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and… — Ingrid Newkirk
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a… — Robert Breault

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