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Strikes Quotes - Page 3

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.192, Delphi Classics

God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

"‘How Bush Rules’" by Sidney Blumenthal, www.nytimes.com. September 24, 2006.

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

"The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.145

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.80, New York : Howe & Bates