Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.