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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.
What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. — © Julia Leigh
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.
There is a striking difference in my look in Burma.' I've experimented with my hairdo, and got a new hair color especially for the role.
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
Larger than life itself, and I can’t even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine.
We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce.
War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.
One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female. — © Gichin Funakoshi
One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female.
Sometimes, you get kickboxers and all they've done is striking and they don't have the wrestling or jiu-jitsu background that I have had since I was young.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.
There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important.
The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).
Start the week with a striking indigo skirt paired with an embroidered suede moto jacket.
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.
I can do back fists, spinning kicks. I have more options, and I can show the better striking.
No matter how much striking power you have got, you need to have a sense of defensive compactness from everyone.
I think McGregor is a super fighter, he has great striking, has gotten better with his wrestling, has good jiu-jitsu, and gets a bit tired after the first or second round. I have a strategy to beat him, and I think I would win. I won't say I'd knock him out or submit him, but I know for sure my hands would be raised in the end.
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest.
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.
Even though I love Hindi films, I don't remember any backdrop visuals that are really striking.
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
With Ronaldo, I think I've identified a few patterns; there are certain striking things. I will try to utilise this knowledge to my advantage.
I'm upping my game in all aspects - striking, Jiu Jitsu, wrestling - so I can be ready for every single thing.
The strategy to beat Shevchenko would be to work non-stop and be all over her, striking the entire time, grabbing her to tire her out, and then work a different game plan on the next rounds. I think that's the best strategy to beat Shevchenko, but anything can change when the time comes.
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. — © George Meredith
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
In Toronto, Serena Williams was not fit at all, not striking the ball well at all, and went three sets with someone (ranked) 92 in the world.
Obviously, I'm trying to keep improving at everything, from the wrestling to the jiu-jitsu to the striking to the transitions, every part of my MMA aspect.
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in the clutch, Tom Matchick's home run to beat Baltimore in the ninth inning, then Daryl Patterson striking out the side to beat them in the ninth. Excitement every day in the ballpark.
There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.
Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobe’s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobe’s mouth were, ‘You know I can kick your ass one on one.’
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. — © Ted Nelson
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
I know there's not a man in the world in any of the striking arts that would just run over me.
The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.
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