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Quotes About Struck

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
~ Peter Pace
Men who are fatally struck usually take a moment to drop. He felt rather suspended in that moment.
~ Julie Anne Long
He stared in something like disbelief. He'd seen a man convulse after being struck by a bolt of lighting once. Watching the marionettes was just that pleasant.
~ Julie Anne Long
His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.
~ Abraham Maslow
Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
In an instant, the pup's trustful friendliness was gone. The man had come on the Place, at dead of night, and had struck him. That must be paid for! Never would the pup forget,—his agonizing lesson that night intruders are not to be trusted or even to be tolerated. Within a single second, he had graduated from a little friend of all the world, into a vigilant watchdog.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
I have never been more struck by the good sense and the practical judgment of the Americans than in the manner in which they elude the numberless difficulties resulting from their Federal Constitution.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
hoped she did not bear a striking resemblance to a wad of dryer lint that had been struck by lightning. The look was adorable on a dust bunny, but her own hair standing on end would not make a good impression on clients.
~ Jayne Castle
This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?
~ William Kidd
It had struck her as comically officious then, hearing his full name uttered.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
~ Peter Pace
brains that self-washed, bathed in received ideologies that came down from on high, ideologies that could remain dormant or hidden for years, silent as death until they struck. Almost anything could happen now, and did.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
more and more in the modern Internet era you came across isolated instances of a mind virus or worm: brains that self-washed, bathed in received ideologies that came down from on high, ideologies that could remain dormant or hidden for years, silent as death until they struck. Almost anything could happen now, and did.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics, and France is clearly their target.
~ Francois Hollande
What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.
~ Jurgen Habermas
The clocks had struck their dreadful purpose and the time now brought all circumstances into the circle.
~ Don Bradley
Fate had struck while she sat unsuspecting, had struck somewhere on one of the many curves of this cursed course. The seconds became leaden, the minutes hours. The carrousel on the white ribbon existed now only like a bad dream; her chest became a black cavity, hollowed out with waiting.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
By the Collision of different Sentiments," Franklin wrote, "Sparks of Truth are struck out, and political Light is obtained.
~ Jill Lepore
I tell you what you'll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.
~ Anne Sexton
I'm not romantic; I'm very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with your rod, one is as good as another.
~ Twinkle Khanna
Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Oh yes, sir. There's no doubt about it, sir. The Punctuation Murderer has struck again.
~ Lynne Truss
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
~ Anais Nin