Strokes Quotes

432 Strokes quotes by 352 unique authors

When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a… — Martin Scorsese
Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes… — Erika Slezak
This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The… — Bede Griffiths
Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the… — Herman Melville
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
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we… — Victor Hugo
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
Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses… — Elizabeth Goudge
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
Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; theyâ€™re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer.… — Paul A. Offit
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

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