Struck Quotes

675 Struck quotes by 567 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs. — Noel Coward
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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