Top 692 Striking Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I'm upping my game in all aspects - striking, Jiu Jitsu, wrestling - so I can be ready for every single thing.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
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.
Rose is a very versatile athlete, she works her striking well.
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.
Start the week with a striking indigo skirt paired with an embroidered suede moto jacket.
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.
Larger than life itself, and I can’t even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine.
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
There's more to pitching than just striking guys out, but also it is a big reason why you can have success.
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.
One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.
Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
No matter how much striking power you have got, you need to have a sense of defensive compactness from everyone.
We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce.
Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
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.
Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.
I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.
Even though I love Hindi films, I don't remember any backdrop visuals that are really striking.
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.
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.
The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.
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.
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.
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.
Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.
I can do back fists, spinning kicks. I have more options, and I can show the better striking.
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
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.
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.
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.
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.
I'll use wrestling if I need to in fights, but maybe I'll fight another wrestler, and you'll find out how good my striking is.
I know there's not a man in the world in any of the striking arts that would just run over me.
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.
