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.
Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.
[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.
See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.
Great strokes make not sweete musick.
An abundance of peer-reviewed science is showing that a whole foods, plant-based diet prevents most heart attacks, strokes, and even many kinds of cancer. It gets you to your ideal weight easily and sustainably, reverses Type 2 diabetes, and even fixes erectile dysfunction (because it greatly improves circulation!).
It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.
I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt
I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.
Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.
You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis. " One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.
I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.
Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.
Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.
To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.
One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.
