“ 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. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 401
“ The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Ring out ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 2.1K
“ And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Not hammer strokes, but dance of the water sings the peebles into perfection. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
- 3.6K
“ In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke. ”
- William T. Tilden II- Copy
- 528
“ I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser. ”
- Arnold Palmer- Copy
- 2.9K
“ He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 4K
“ I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 383
“ It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. ”
- Fred Perry- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. ”
- Julia Ward Howe- Copy
- 2.8K
“ There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.7K
“ We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead. ”
- William James- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.5K
“ President Bush played golf yesterday and I understand Vice President Dick Cheney also got in a couple of strokes. ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.2K
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