Top 171 Striking Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Striking Quotes from famous people such as Aleister Black, Robert Whittaker, Frances Beinecke, Jessica Andrade, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I’m covered in tattoos head to toe, I have this striking style, I’m smaller than most competitors, and people are like, ‘Yeah. That’s my guy.’ Why? Because they can see part of themselves in me.
Aleister Black
I have great striking, really great striking, and I hit very hard.
Robert Whittaker
Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.
Frances Beinecke
I worked a lot on my striking game and I’m getting better and better every day.
Jessica Andrade
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry – which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks – that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
Francis Crick
The striking thing about ‘New Girl’ is that under all the comedy, there’s something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real – much more real than other sitcoms. Like – maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.
Elizabeth Meriwether
Sometimes, you get kickboxers and all they’ve done is striking and they don’t have the wrestling or jiu-jitsu background that I have had since I was young.
Stephen Thompson
Strikers love to play with other strikers, as I did with Sergio Aguero, Luis Suarez, and Edinson Cavani. You can make the most of your individual talents for the good of the team. If you can strike up a good partnership with another player, it’s like striking gold.
Diego Forlan
The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.
James Howard Kunstler
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn’t political and racist in refusing to worship with us.
Michael Eric Dyson
What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.
David Starkey
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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of ‘modern’ or ‘decadent’ thinking.
Jay Parini
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.
Lawrence M. Krauss
The move into K-1 was very big at the time. It was very special to me. I liked it. It was different. It was only striking, no ground, so it kinda changed my fight style a little bit.
Alistair Overeem
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
People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist… but she wasn’t striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn’t particularly keen on them.
Lydia Leonard
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
Carl Schurz
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.
Julia Leigh
It’s tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It’s no fun. It’s embarrassing. But there really isn’t anything I can do. It’s just a part of my game.
Jim Thome
That is probably the biggest issue about the English game. You need to be a great player and great at striking the ball, of course, but it’s also about your head and being able to understand the game, especially for a midfielder.
Xabi Alonso
I hate striking out, but at the same time, I’m much better at letting them go rather than, earlier in my career, worrying about it so much before the next at-bat against the guy. You grow as you play, and every year, I work to cut them down.
Giancarlo Stanton
It’s rare that you sit down for an episode of ‘Psych’ and think, ‘Oh, that was just okay.’ For the most part, we’re either really knocking the ball around, or we’re striking out and failing miserably, but you don’t ever want to be anywhere in between.
James Roday
Looking back on the Tiananmen movement, it is striking how modest the protesters’ demands were: an end to press censorship and restrictions on demonstrations; openness about the income of state leaders; increased funding for education.
Tom Malinowski
Dos Anjos, his wrestling and grappling is supposed to be good, but I feel my Jiu Jitsu, wrestling and striking is way better. I’m better than him all across the board.
Donald Cerrone
It’s the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.
Ville Valo
One of the things that is so striking to me about the South, especially living here now as an adult, is that I see a lot more mixed-race couples than I saw when I was growing up in the 1980s and the 1990s. I feel like living across the color lines has become something that’s more expected.
Jesmyn Ward
Films like ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘Shrek’ are hits because they hit on different levels with different age groups. Striking that balance is what I strive for. But I won’t know if I’ve done it until the audience sees it.
Kelly Asbury
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren’t this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who’s rippled with muscles.
Jack Huston
Henri Hooft is the greatest striking coach on planet. He’s phenomenal leader – he makes me believe in me more than I will ever believe in me.
Michael Chandler
Jiu-jitsu is my strong suit, but I trust my wrestling a

Jiu-jitsu is my strong suit, but I trust my wrestling and my striking.
Glover Teixeira
To have an effective striking match, you need gloves on. Junior dos Santos would have a very short career if he was in a bare knuckle fight. The early UFCs, before gloves, were grappling with some striking.
Frank Mir
The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.
Paul Wolfowitz
My wrestling actually helps my striking and my striking helps my wrestling. I just learned how to put it all together through synergy.
Ryan Bader
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth
I like to make people quit. Whether it’s because I’m striking them or submitting them, I just want to make them quit. In the war of wills, that’s the win.
Forrest Griffin
The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.
Murray Rothbard
Millennials are exceptionally independent and innovative. Striking out on your own and failing a few times is de rigueur, while going to work for a company on the expectation that you’ll build a 30-year career there is unheard of.
S.E. Cupp
Ben Askren, he is a very strong wrestler, probably the best in the division, I think. But then again, when you’re in the fight game like this, some of the other things you have to improve. It can’t just be wrestling all the time. You got to continue to work on your striking, get better at that.
Stephen Thompson
Success is like a lightning bolt. It’ll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.
Michelle Phan
Striking isn’t just about kicking and punching. It’s far more complex than that. It’s also about timing and range.
Demian Maia
The average commercial radio listener in America is not looking for lofty, intellectual subjects. This isn’t brain surgery. It’s about striking the passion of the people.
Ed Schultz
Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
George III of the United Kingdom
Values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values, that I am not striking something down simply because I don’t like it. That is a countermajoritarian aspect of our system of government. I would start with the text.
Raymond Kethledge
It’s striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the beginning to the end, with all these different elements, it tells a full story that you know very well how to develop and cultivate.
Alain Ducasse
Striking out batters was easy.
George Herman
When you look at Istanbul, from Byzantium to the present day, it’s striking how it has always been a city of the people, with a political voice, right from its early classical history.
Bettany Hughes
St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn’t.
Simon Schama