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"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true." »Honore' de Balzac
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"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." »Babe Ruth
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"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." »Mark Twain
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""One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." »Mark Twain
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"Make the iron hot by striking it." »Oliver Cromwell
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"It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." »George Orwell, "1984", first sentence
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"For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." »Henry Thoreau
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"To abstain from speaking is regarded as very difficult. It is not possible to say much that is valuable and striking.*" »Mahabharata
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"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library." »Samuel Johnson
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"The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline." »George J. Seidel
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"We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers)" »Ronald Reagan
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"Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."" »Halford E. Luccock
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"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites..." »Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.
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"The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but 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." »Ni'matullah Wali
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