Top 582 Stroke Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
Don’t worry if I lay my head back and start to snore while we’re flying. It’s normal. I’m just here in case Jake has a stroke and dies. (Tony)
The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.
We paint small town America with a really broad stroke. There's a lot more nuance to these towns than, I think, the world knows.
I'm well aware of the health dangers of an expanding waistline and belly fat: diabetes, heart disease, stroke, even cancer.
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.
But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.
That's one thing with stroke victims, you've got to have a goal and you cannot accept anything but that goal.
I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.
I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
One of Tiger's trademarks in his prime was his ability to fight for every stroke.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.
Humankind's craving to control nature and exploit all its resources for profit can be wiped out in a stroke by an organism we cannot even see with the naked eye.
Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.
After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.
You could pray all you want that you have a massive stroke while you're working and die, but possibly that won't happen, and you'll be in this bed, and somebody's going to have to clean you up.
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.
I don't think people realise how important it is to have your blood pressure checked. Stroke is so sudden, so catastrophic.
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
One day I'll do a Dorian Gray, and there will be a picture in the attic. I'll look like Helen Daniels from 'Neighbours' after her stroke.
Take 'The Stroke,' for instance. Plenty of people saw sexual connotations in that song but to me it was about what goes on in the business world.
You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
I have a blend of klotho gene variants that have been linked with a lower risk for coronary artery disease and stroke and an advantage in longevity.
Some players just have the natural stroke that you throw them in the lineup and all of the sudden they turn on a ball and hit it out of the ballpark.
Before my stroke, I thought I was infallible, because I was physically strong, and could do these endless hours with no effects, whatsoever. But sooner or later, we all hit a wall.
I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what they call 'the stroke of genius.'
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.
It doesn't use shading, but it does use stroke length variations.
Do you think George Bush actually knows who Gordon Brown is? He probably just thinks Tony Blair's put on weight and had a mild stroke.
Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.
I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm redheaded. I don't tan - I stroke!
Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this [Republican] party is capable of.
They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom
Good news for orange lovers: citrus fruit intake has been associated with reduced stroke risk.
A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.
I don't have any irrational fears. Obviously, if I was walking through the outback, and I saw a snake, I wouldn't go up and stroke it, but I wouldn't run screaming from it, either.
The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.
If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.
I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.
I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.
Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles.
The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.
People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
