Quotes About Struck

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

In teaching my first meditation and running workshop, I was struck by the number of participants who were ultramarathon runners. When I considered their experience, it made sense. After you run for a while, what do you find in there but your own mind? You work with that mind by meditating regularly.

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy,And moon-struck madness.

Best thing she could do. Going to take her to stay with my grandmother.' 'By Jove!' exclaimed Ferdy, much struck. 'Devilish good notion of yours, Gil! As long as she ain't dead.' 'Of course she ain't dead!' said Mr Ringwood, with a touch of impatience. 'How could I take Kitten to stay with her if she was?

I heard the huff of his breath, as if I had struck him, as if perhaps my words had reached through his self-righteousness.

Now I lack your extensive erudition," said Guleed once we were out of sight of the basement, "but that struck me as being just a little bit Lord of the Rings." "Nah," I said. "She didn't call it her precious—it doesn't count if you don't call it your precious.

If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.

Once again Leafpaw was struck by the powerful tabby's resemblance to some other cat; the thought bothered her like a tick she couldn't reach

I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.

Equating horror with the inhuman has always struck me as convenient but fallacious, if only because I was born into a century that should have ended such talk for good.

Evils are to be traced to their sources, and struck at there. Like Barbary pirates, they are to be destroyed through the suppression of the state that sends them forth.

The first and most obvious difference would be the absence of Iceland, for these volcanic islands mark the place where the meteor struck and penetrated to the mantle below.

Love wasn't a happening one decided on---to indulge or not, to partake or not. To feel or not. When it came, when it struck, the only decision left to make was how to respond---whether you embraced it, took it in, and made it a part of you, or whether you turned your back and let it die.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.

There were moments," she explained, "when you struck me as grandly cynical; there were others when you struck me as grandly vague.

I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.'

There was something diabolically sweet in her tones—something of the tingling of glass when struck—which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another.

Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not of evidence. I'm almost never asked, "How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?" I

As with all things evil, he waited until the balance of hatred, envy, greed—the human failings common to all the races—outweighed the goodness and kindness, and then he struck.

I'm not sure it's affection for Australian or New Zealand films or not. I think it's just that there's something about 'Wilderpeople' that has really struck a chord.

When I first became a policeman, I was often struck by the absurdity of most of the crime I encountered. Gradually what used to seem absurd began to seem quite normal.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.