“ My luck was my father not striking oil… we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera, and I'd have had a lot less interesting life. ”
- King Vidor- Copy
- 1.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.8K
“ One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 1.5K
“ One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.9K
“ There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2K
“ Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
- 2.8K
“ There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.8K
“ If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 1.5K
“ 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. ”
- George III- Copy
- 456
“ There are a thousand hacking at the branches of the evil to one who is striking at the root. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman. ”
- Ingrid Bergman- Copy
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“ No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out in striking contrast with the temerity of his advance upon Bunker Hill in the preceding year. ”
- John Fiske- Copy
- 4K
“ It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ It is with enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success. ”
- Francoise d’Aubigne Maintenon- Copy
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“ Knavery seems to be so much a striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom. ”
- King George III- Copy
- 3K
“ The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way. ”
- Louise Kapp Howe- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed… ”
- George Leonard- Copy
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“ The tendency of human nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. All people have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards. Now, by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go over your forehead, and, by damming and leading it, you may force it up a hill; — but are such movements according to the nature of water? It is just the force applied that causes them… ”
- Mencius- Copy
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