Strikes Quotes - Page 4

• We've turned off all the lights in the living room to make hand shadows. We've got this big flashlight aimed at the wall. I make the silhouette of my hand into a duck. Robin makes his into a rabbit. Now my duck kisses his rabbit And-POOF!- it turns into a turkey. And for some reason this strikes us as hysterically funny. But you probably had to be there.

  Sonya Sones

  Wall, Kissing, Light

  Sonya Sones (2013). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Ancient one sleeping, waiting to rise When earth's power bleeds sacred red The mark strikes true; Queen Tsi Sgili will devise He shall be washed from his entombing bed Through the hand of the dead he is free Terrible beauty, monstrous sight Ruled again they shall be Women shall kneel to his dark might Kalona's song sounds sweet As we slaughter with cold heat

  P. C. Cast

  Song, Sweet, Queens

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “Revealed: Number 11 in series”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now?

  Christopher Moore

  Dream, Kings, Years

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• After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.

  Frank Beddor

  Love, Husband, Wife

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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• Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Knives, Knowing, Long

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.112, Penguin

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• I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.

  Ellis Peters

  Believe, Miracle, Desert

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.252, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• What are you? Weak? Don’t tell me you want me to spare this pathetic animal when it wouldn’t show you any such mercy. Believe me, it’s better to take the head off a cobra before the cobra strikes you. (Xypher) A cobra can’t help what it is. Why should you punish it because it’s doing what the gods created it to do? (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Animal, Cobras

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• Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry ---`I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is ---`I want thee, only thee'.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Night, Light

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

  Charlaine Harris

  Crazy, Men, Battle

  Charlaine Harris (2016). “Real Murders”, p.105, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?" "No," Brigan said gravely. "I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south." "Gracious," Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. "Have an apple, dear.

  Kristin Cashore

  Mother, Lying, Spring

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.92, Penguin

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• Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.

  Diane Ackerman

  Weed, Hair, Color

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• I wasn‘t—" I began. I didn‘t—" He began. How charming," V‘lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human domestic bliss. She‘s on the floor, you‘re towering over her. Did he strike you, MacKayla? Say the word and I‘ll kill him.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cutting, Voice, Portraits

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• Shut up, sit down, and read. (Tory) Please? (Acheron) You need something? (Tory) You to be polite to me, Ms. I Own The World- Now Do What I Say You Pathetic Pleb. (Acheron) You don’t strike me as the kind of guy who takes orders anyway. (Tory) Yes, but a simple please goes a long way. I’m the one doing you a favor here. (Acheron) Fine. Please sit down, shut up, and read. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Simple, Order, Long

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• But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.

  Charlaine Harris

  Men, Ideas, Female

  Charlaine Harris (2007). “An Ice Cold Grave”, p.228, Penguin

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• I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the hole world's blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicolored sunsets that look like someone's acid trip.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Spring, Sunset

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• ...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Christian, Believe, Fighting

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• The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud.

  Steven Pinker

  Mother, Sleep, Boys

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.460, W. W. Norton & Company

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• So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

  Taylor Swift

  Watches, Wasted Time, Watch Me

  Song: Picture To Burn, Album: Taylor Swift

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• Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

  Kingsley Amis

  World, Terrible, Without Music

  Kingsley Amis (1990). “The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990”, Arrow

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• Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.

  Rick Riordan

  Queens, Warrior, Towns

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• Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.

  Hannah Arendt

  Children, Responsibility, Our World

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• [...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

  Laura Esquivel

  Love, Lust, Born

  Laura Esquivel (2010). “Like Water For Chocolate”, p.104, Random House

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• If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Father, Worry, Body

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• She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl

  Tom Clancy

  Girl, Ink, Kind

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• Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

  Sebastian Barry

  Thinking, Judging, Judgement

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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