Struck Quotes
675 quotes by 579 authors
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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
— Charles V of France
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The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.
— Henryk Skolimowski
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As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every…
— Dannion Brinkley
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Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose…
— Marianne Bluger
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Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how…
— Matthieu Ricard
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A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
— Christy Mathewson
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The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that…
— John Leo
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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
— Bill Gates
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I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental…
— Brian Eno
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and…
— A. E. Housman
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova,…
— Michio Kaku
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Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
— Russell Baker
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I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No…
— Isaac Asimov
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I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the…
— Justus von Liebig
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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We…
— William Hazlitt
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Did you know? Did the cross cast a shadow on your cradle? Did you shudder each time your hammer struck a nail? How much heaven…
— Todd Agnew
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Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far…
— Augustus De Morgan
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In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an…
— Michael Denton
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