#striking

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#appearing #create #i #i am #just

Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#also #bar #blows #bodies #case

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#because #certain #certain things #degree #greeks

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

#civilization #discovery #fire #greatest #human

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

— Babe Ruth

#get #never #out #striking #way

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

— Carl Hubbell

#gehrig #order #out #ruth #striking

But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code. ↗

— Richard Neal

#america #code #could #cuts #democrats

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#been #first #i #i have learned #learned

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

— Samuel Johnson

#conviction #hopes #human #library #more

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#battle #respect #soft #striking #treating