Strikes Quotes
Strikes Quote of the day
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.
It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'
The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.
I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.
This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.
Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.
Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.
Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.
Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down
When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.
The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!
This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.
It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.
Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.
Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.
Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.
Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.
... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.
