Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
Jonathan Carroll

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.
Richard Owen

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth

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.
Max Lerner

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Oliver Cromwell

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Jean-Luc Godard

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac

Striking out batters was easy.
George Herman

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
Carl Hubbell

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de L'Enclos

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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 most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
C. L. R. James

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.
Diane Watson

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
Gabriel Marcel

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Alfred Einstein

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson