Struck Quotes
675 quotes by 567 authors
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War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction,…
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
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It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
— Tayari Jones
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In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with…
— Francis Schaeffer
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I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.
— Warren Spahn
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Writer George Orwell confessed he found something "deeply appealing" about Adolf Hitler. Where Martha Dodd was struck by Hitler's "weak, soft face," Orwell discerned "a…
— Brad Marchand
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Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the…
— B. C. Forbes
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It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans,…
— Henning Mankell
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The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor of Scripture. My…
— Jim Bakker
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I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve.
— Big Boi
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If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge…
— Daniel Tammet
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More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth…
— Neil Postman
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An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
— Colin Meloy
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And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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On Max Yasgur’s six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music and each other,…
— Michael Lang
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Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost…
— Richard Halliburton
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Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going…
— Richard Halliburton
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I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.
— Jamie Dimon
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