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«Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.»
Author: Babe Ruth (Baseball Player) | Keywords: striking
«My job isn't to strike guys out, its to get them out, sometimes by striking them out.»
Author: Tom Seaver | About: Jobs | Keywords: striking
«Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.»
«I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.»
«Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking»
Author: Oliver Cromwell | Keywords: striking
«I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.»
«If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Words | Keywords: striking
«I stood on the bridge at midnight, / As the clocks were striking the hour.»
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library»
«It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to»

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