Struck Quotes
675 Struck quotes by 567 unique authors
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To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position…
— Sven Birkerts
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It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because…
— Lucretius
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By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
— William Shakespeare
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
— Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
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That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a…
— Mary McDonnell
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In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an…
— Cynthia Ozick
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Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were…
— Jack Handey
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Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are…
— Ernest Lawrence
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Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to…
— Unknown Author
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But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at…
— Winston Churchill
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What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse;…
— Jurgen Habermas
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And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something…
— Plato
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Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.
— Noel Coward
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Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble…
— Mark Twain
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime…
— Thomas A. Edison
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A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite…
— Douglas Adams
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I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another…
— Calvin Trillin
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One time in spring training, we had the hit-and-run on, and Carl Erskine threw me a curve and I struck out into a double play.…
— Whitey Herzog
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The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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I'm star-struck when I see Paul Scholes because you never see him. On the pitch you can't catch him. Off the pitch he disappears.
— Luis Figo
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It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand…
— Sally Gardner
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Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck…
— Peter Pouncey
Who Wrote These Struck Quotes
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