Struck Quotes
675 Struck quotes by 567 unique authors
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Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.
— Robert Farrar Capon
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It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers…
— Lord Dunsany
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As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.
— Rick Steves
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When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
— Ernest Bramah
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If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most…
— Patricia Hampl
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So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and…
— Barry S. Strauss
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It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed…
— Anne Rice
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A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face…
— Leigh Hunt
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It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed…
— George Friedman
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The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
— George Meredith
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol…
— T Bone Burnett
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Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly…
— Francis Parkman
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I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight,…
— Barack Obama
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The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
— Gloria Swanson
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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.
— John Milton
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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the…
— James Joyce
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The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous. For one thing, I've never been particularly good at numbers,…
— Richard Branson
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Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly…
— Eric Kandel
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It must have been providence that directed Joel Morwood to dig in the right place, for he struck a lode of pure gold, as wide…
— Huston Smith
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