Strokes Quotes

• Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Down And, Littles

  1592 Messenger to Richard telling of his fatherYork's death. HenryVI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.54-5.

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• Different strokes for different folks.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Different

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• Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

  Carly Fiorina

  Funny, Leadership, Small Acts

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• I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Games, Funny Golf

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• Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

  Peter Hammill

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

  Lee Haney

  Cheer, Cancer, Heart

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• The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Love You, Lovers

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [296]

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• He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Our Generation, Ties

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.361, Anchor

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• And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

  Cleo Moore

  Mirrors, Dabs, Use

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• Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

  Joan Didion

  Texture, Painting, Novel

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1". Interview with Hilton Als, www.theparisreview.org. 2006.

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• Little strokes fell great oaks.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, 4th Of July, Persistence

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.81

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Writing, Positive Thinking, Opportunity

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• When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Ideas, Giving

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, 3:381, June 27, 1839.

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• Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, Calumny, Scapes

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.63, Classic Books Company

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 12, 1959.

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• A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

  Jay Leno

  Depression, Cheer, People

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• There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke.

  Walter Willett

  Vegetables, Risk, Fruit

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• After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Pathways, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Song, Art, Dust

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• Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "5 Ways to Deal With Rejection" by Karen Naumann, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2016.

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• Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life, I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough; in fact , I may never get over the silence on the part of writers who say nothing about this second movement.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Journey, Contemplative Life, Self

  Bernadette Roberts “Experience of No-Self, The: A Contemplative Journey, Revised Edition”, SUNY Press

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• Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.

  Peter O'Toole

  Book, Cutting, Artist

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• I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm redheaded. I don't tan - I stroke!

  Woody Allen

  Beach, Hate, Sun

  Play It Again, Sam (motion picture) (1972)

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• No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

  H. G. Wells

  Art, Lying, Believe

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine”, p.90, H. G. Wells

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• A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

  Roger Mahony

  Healing, Alcohol, Drug

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