Quotes with striking

  • Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
  • There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
  • I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

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  • Henry David Thoreau There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Babe Ruth As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Babe Ruth Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Billy Collins Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Carl Schurz From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Thomas Paine He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • John Osborne Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Ronald Reagan 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
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz It is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one's forces this way and that.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • King George III Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
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  • Oliver Cromwell Make the iron hot by striking it.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Ben Hecht Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Babe Ruth Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Max Lerner Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Samuel Johnson No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Mark Twain One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Brit Morin Society is still adapting to women being CEOs and professionals rather than homemakers. Because of this, the unfortunate outcome is that we feel we have to be successful at both - in the office and in the home. Striking that balance is different for everyone.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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