Mind Striking Quotes

#1. Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task ... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.

Sarah Fielding

#2. Don't waste too much time chasing the wrong guy or you might miss the right one.

Jana Aston

#3. Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.

Nicolas De Caritat, Marquis De Condorcet

#4. I could take you out in a second," she threatens.
If he's concerned, he doesn't show it. "I know."
Somehow he also knows that she won't do it - that the first time was just a reflex. If she were to hurt him a second time, though, it would be a conscious act. It would be by choice.

Neal Shusterman

#5. The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

George Meredith

#6. Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. There are many world leaders who are worse than [Donald] Trump.They don't just talk about violence, they practice it on an extreme scale. And we welcome them to our country.

Edward Leigh

#8. She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!"
Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame,
enormous will?

Sarah MacLean

#9. After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.

Janet Kauffman

#10. Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind.

Elvis Presley

#11. Great fire can follow a small spark: there may be better voices after me to pray to Cyrrha's god for aid - that he may answer.

Dante Alighieri

#12. Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don't wish for it to end, or for it to never end.

Matt Haig

#13. The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind.

Robert Jastrow

#14. Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

Richard Flanagan

#15. The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.

Emily Bronte

#16. His mind was an enraged animal, bouncing off the bars of a magically imposed cage, and like an animal, he reacted blindly, striking against the barrier again and again, determined either to be free or to die. Hot

Raymond E. Feist

#17. Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.

Rick Riordan

#18. To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,
this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#19. I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myself by tearing memories out of my mind at random like matches from a book, striking them one at a time and drowsily setting myself on fire.

Jonathan Tropper

#20. For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#21. You are God's agents in the care of children He has entrusted to you. Let His divine influence remain in your hears as you teach and persuade.

Russell M. Nelson