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Letter "T" » The Strokes
«Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
by luck, getting, luck, luck into, luck it, stroke, stroked, The Strokes, wonderful
«Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.»
Author: Denis Leary
(Actor)
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«A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.»
Author: I Ching
| Keywords:
adaptations, calmly, come by, creative person, gains, small person, stroke, stroked, The Strokes
«The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.»
«He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?»
Author: Stephen King
(Writer)
| Keywords:
booted, boots, died, dying, equivalent, generation, massive, stroke, stroked, The Strokes, tie-on, tie
«Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
bone, boned, soft, stroke, stroked, therewith, The Strokes, tongue
«Little strokes fell great oaks.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
fell, oaks, stroked, strokes, The Strokes
«Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
adulteress, adulteresses, advance, along, girl, incestuous, progress, rapidity, sodomite, sodomites, stroke, stroked, The Strokes, thorny, vice
«He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.'»
«The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.»
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