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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
— Ted Nelson
We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.
— William Randolph Hearst
It takes a weak man to prove his strength by striking a woman.
— Bernard Cornwell
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.
— Richard A. Proctor
Make the iron hot by striking it.
— Oliver Cromwell
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
— Samuel Johnson
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.
— Julia Leigh
I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him the love of God.
— John Climacus
Apparently one impression we are making ... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
— Abraham Maslow
After a long time when the sun finally comes out of the clouds, the Earth salutes it by striking its best pose!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Striking up conversations with strangers is something like extreme sports for autistic people.
— Kamran Nazeer
the white bath mat. The man kicked out and sent Qassou flying through the air, striking against the
— Ben Coes
Our living room had a clock in it that used to clear its throat before striking the hours. He is that harrumphing.
— Joseph Roth
What is has been. What will be is no more than a forgotten year striking backward.
— Rudyard Kipling
The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.
— Georges Danton
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
— Alain De Botton
The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.
— Paul Wolfowitz
When a man strikes another man, he better have a good reason. There is never a good reason for a man to strike a woman.
— Dixie Waters
Life is like a storm. At its worst, it's full of blinding fury, rage, and destruction. However, at its best, it is full of striking beauty and wonder.
— Tanner Walling
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.
— James Martineau
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
— Ronald Reagan
Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.
— Jean Piaget
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Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.
— John W. Gardner
Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.
— Linus Pauling
I think they both have to be lucky. It's like, luck friction. One's flint and one's steel, striking together to make fire.
— Laini Taylor
It suffered and died in translation.
— Joanne Greenberg
Striking out batters was easy.
— George Herman
Nothing is more striking to an European traveller in the United States than the absence of what we term the Government, or the Administration.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
From the pancake house I drive directly to the county morgue. The contrast is not especially striking.
— Carl Hiaasen
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.
— Sara Sheridan
In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I hate striking out, doesn't matter what time of the game. I just don't like striking out.
— Joe Mauer
Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.
— Elvis Presley
This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.
— Renee Fleming
She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations,
— Tom Piazza
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
— Honore De Balzac
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
— Ambrose Bierce
But though he had no striking vices, his virtues were perhaps almost as hard to define.
— Susanna Clarke
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
— Thomas A. Edison
There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
— Angela Carter
I ... noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers. None of them were deniers.
— Lawrence Solomon
The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
— Jean-Luc Godard
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
— Marcel Proust
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
— William Shenstone
The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering.
— Matthieu Ricard
Henry had taken striking on to a different level
— Michael Owen
The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.
— Andrew Delbanco
Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens.
— Virginia Woolf
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
— Henry David Thoreau
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If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.
— Lev Shestov
Jane caught sight of a very striking Colonel Andrews who, now that she watched him dance, might just be gay.
— Shannon Hale
Then, as now, the cities were filled with the poor, and urban Christians' commitment to the poor was visible and striking.
— Timothy Keller
One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female.
— Gichin Funakoshi
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
— John Stuart Mill
Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.
— Martha Stout
Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.
— Casey Stengel
But what I find so striking is their incredible simplicity.
— James C. Collins
Start the week with a striking indigo skirt paired with an embroidered suede moto jacket.
— Lubov Azria
My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.
— Tom Seaver
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
— Terence McKenna
Beautiful I would never be. Striking, that I could manage.
— Ilona Andrews
THE STRIKING CONTRAST
— Erwin Schrodinger
Shame to him whose cruel striking, kills for thoughts of his own liking.
— William Shakespeare
For no one walks the world in armature but must have terror striking at his heart.
— Foundation For Inner Peace
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.
— Samuel Johnson
It does not take the striking pose of a high-fashion model or the strict stance of someone in uniform to earn respect and admiration.
— Cindy Ann Peterson
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root - Thoreau
— Stephen Covey
'Star Trek' is notorious for looting the more thoughtful work of writers for their striking effects, leaving behind most of the thought and subtlety.
— Gregory Benford
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
— George Meredith
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
— Robert Motherwell
Facilis descensus Averni," he whispered, his ominous and preternatural words striking her very soul. "The descent to Hell is easy.
— Sylvain Reynard
Striking a woman was something weak men did; men with little moral fibre and no self-control. It was a coward's response to a situation. And
— Steven A. McKay
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
— Jonathan Carroll
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
— Tryon Edwards
I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy ... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian heritage; he's absolutely striking.
— Sandra Bullock
