Striking Quotes (17 quotes)

“Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extremely harsh, striking a hell of false notes. (“Love lying fallow “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: create, extremely, false-notes, harmony, harsh, hell, love, musical-score, sounds, striking, tuneful

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“When we go with the tide of life and pursue the twisting currents of our thoughts, a surge of consciousness can guide us through the blurred passages of our history and light up striking instants that we may have missed out. ("Knowing someone was waiting")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blurred, consciousness, guide, miss-out, passages, striking, tide-of-life, twisting

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“Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful! You are going to be great after the struggles.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

tags: depressed, feel, food-for-thought, great, israelmore-ayivor, little, pain, painful, painful-situation, rubbing, sharpen, something, striking, stroked-by-pain, strong, struggles, use, useful, whenever

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“It suffered and died in translation.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

tags: striking

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“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. As far as I am aware the presently accepted set of twenty amino acids was first drawn up by Watson and myself in the summer of 1953 in response to a letter of Gamow's.”
― Francis Crick

tags: biochemistry, gamow, generalizations, george-gamow, james-d-watson, james-watson, nature, nobel-laureate, science, striking, watson

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“In a world of love
lightning and rainbow
are lovers now.
They arc and strike
upon the horizon of credence
to rise above their cloudy vow”
― Munia Khan

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“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: able, aesthetic, alluring, appealing, arresting, artistic, astute, attractive, beautiful, beauty, beguiling, bewitching, brainy, bright, brilliant, canny, charming, clever, cook, cultivated, cultured, cute, decorative, delightful, discerning, divine, drop-dead-gorgeous, easy-on-the-eye, educated, elegant, engaging, enlightened, erudite, exquisite, foxy, gifted, glamorous, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, handsome, hot, humor, humour, hunky, insightful, intellect, intelligent, intuitive, killer, kitchen, knowledgeable, learned, lovely, magnificent, perceptive, perspicacious, prepossessing, pretty, quick-on-the-uptake, quick-witted, satire, scholarly, sex, smart, striking, stunning, talented, well-educated, well-informed, well-read, winsome-ravishing, woman, women

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“Seni övmek, böbürlenmek demektir. Deborah'ı övmekse... bağışlamak...”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

tags: striking

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“This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.”
― Renee Fleming, The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

tags: character, lives, put-together, qualities, striking

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“One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.”
― Henry Norris Russell

tags: age, astronomy, event, evidence, evolution, history, investigation, meteorites, moon, nebulae, orbit, radioactive, redshift, science, space, striking, testimony, time, universe

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“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

tags: abuse, love, love-quotes, striking, think-positively

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“I will not move an inch; I've become an anvil to endure every act of striking”
― Munia Khan

tags: act, anvil, endurance, endure, endure-pain, inch, move, striking

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“C'était la première fois que je souffrais de ce sort de n'être pas reconnue de toi, ce sort qu'une vie entière j'ai subi et avec lequel je m'en vais; inconnue, toujours inconnue à tes yeux”
― Stefan Zweig, Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories

tags: bitter, striking

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“While serving one of his countless sentences of imprisonment, he was given ex-wrestler Paul as cell companion. Paul was at that time a dock worker; he was in jail for having, during a strike riot, remembered his professional past and applied the grip known as a double Nelson to a policeman. This grip consisted in passing one's arms through the opponent's armpits from behind, locking one's hands behind his neck,
and pressing his head down until the neck vertebra began to crack. In the ring this had always brought him considerable applause, but he had learned to his regret that in the class struggle the double Nelson was not done.”
― Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

tags: humor, rioting, striking, wrestling

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“His features made him look striking, and I wondered if that was actually his personality.”
― Binta Userkaf, Itchikan: 'til death do us part'

tags: book, fandom, features, itchikan, life, personality, striking

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“A striking colour is just another way of saying I am here!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: color, colors, colour, colourful, colours, colours-quotes, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, striking

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“He looked at the human ant hill of growingly ordered activity outside and felt a shrinking helplessness. This was the true Juggernaut, this marshalling of men and skills in stubborn determination and equally stubborn disregard of human life. This was Juggernaut, the Crushing, Irresistible Force, not the human being with the breathy voice on the telephone.”
― Al Hine (Author)

tags: pertinent, poignant, striking

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