Strokes Quotes - Page 21

• We should know at least the broad strokes of the powers that the government's claiming in our name, and using allegedly, on our behalf. And also against us as well.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Names, Should

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You are now entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'

  Garet Garrett

  Lying, Night, Voice

  Garet Garrett (1961). “Rise of Empire”

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• I've always felt, it's a gift of God, whatever I have, whatever has made me do what I do for as long as I do it. But I know I can lose that in one second. A stroke. Whatever. One second. Blow the whole thing. So, when you do think about that, you realize how fortunate and how blessed you've been, and that's really how I feel.

  Vin Scully

  Blessed, Blow, Thinking

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• Bluebell,” she said, remembering from Erotique. “Pretty name.” “I call Dmitri Dark Overlord.” “Shae,” Dmitri said and the female vampire rose at once to walk quickly into the house. “Now, pretty Bluebell” another languid stroke across her skin “tell the Overlord what you discovered.

  Nalini Singh

  Dark, Names, Rose

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Blade”, p.109, Penguin

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• I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Army, Hair, Voice

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• Christians belive in a sovereign God who never says "Oops". We believe that all our days ... are divine strokes on the canvas of our lives by the Master Artist who certified his skill, his power, and his love in the Masterpiece of Calvary. If you doubt His skill in painting your life - look at the Calvary

  John Piper

  Christian, Believe, Artist

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• Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.

  Mark Teixeira

  Running, Home, Two

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• A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

  Laozi

  Writing, Athlete, Games

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• Marching diverts man's thoughts. Marching kills thoughts. Marching makes an end of individuality. Marching is the indispensable magic stroke performed in order to accustom people to a mechanical, quasi-ritualistic activity until it becomes second nature.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Order, People

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• I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.

  Jack White

  Hurt, Home, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Dare, Caress, Humans

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• Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

  Todd Rundgren

  Waiting, Luck, World

  Song: Drive, Album: The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect

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• Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer.

  Liz Miller

  Cancer, Heart, Blood

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

  Gerrit Noordzij

  Writing, Space, Design

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• I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Book, Emotional

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• A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Change, Sleep, Destiny

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• Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

  A. W. Tillinghast

  Home, Golf, Play

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• Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

  Michael Bassey

  Good Friend, Luck, Way

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• All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.

  Criss Jami

  Support, Leader, Ego

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.72, Criss Jami

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• Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

  David Tang

  Believe, Character, Writing

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• You just stroke me, stroke me.

  Billy Squier

  Misinterpretation

  Song: The Stroke

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• She had something down there twice as big as mine. That's why I say you better watch where you stroke, cause it could turn out, turn out to be a joke.

  Gary B.B. Coleman

  Watches, Causes, Bigs

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• I stroke it to the East, and I stroke it to the West, and I stroke it to the woman that I love best. I be strokin'.

  Clarence Carter

  Sex, Love Is, East

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• It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.

  Washington Irving

  Prayer, Draws, Handle

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• She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sarcastic, Powerful, Sea

  "A Writer's Notebook". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1946.

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