Hit Quotes (page 22)

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• him
• learning
• evening

Even a fool learns something once it hits him. Homer

• powerful
• hard
• mind power

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within. Virginia Woolf

• time
• feeling
• watch

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit. Annie Dillard

• help
• grief
• house

Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of deathand the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief, the curse no man can bear. But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no, not from others but from them, their bloody strife. We sing to you, dark gods beneath the earth. Now hear, you blissful powers underground --answer the call, send help. Bless the children, give them triumph now. Aeschylus

• mirror
• lost
• hand

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself. Wes Anderson

• hope
• running
• thinking

I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused."About not hitting the trees, I hope. Stephenie Meyer

• funny
• new
• surprise

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised? Stephenie Meyer

• book
• hitting
• needed

'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book. Gerald Durrell

• hope
• fitness
• expectation

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. William Shakespeare

• end
• world
• likes

Wouldn't you like just for once to see Charlie Brown hit that ball?"No... I'm not prepared to have the world come to an end! Charles M. Schulz

• love
• students
• shovel

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel! Terry Prachett

• fall
• believe
• moments

I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground. Jodi Picoult

• thankful you
• manly
• true

And I'm a black rainbow. And I'm an ape of god. I got a face that's made for violence upon. I'm a teen distortion. Survived abortion. A rebel from the waist down. I wanna thank you mom. I wanna thank you dad. For bringing this fucking world. To a bitter end. I never really hated a one true god. But the God of the people I hated. You said you wanted evolution. The ape was a great big hit. You say you want a revolution, man. And I say that you're full of shit Marilyn Manson

• evening
• hard
• kindness

If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or... Shunryu Suzuki

• forgiveness
• buddy
• listed

I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy. Jonathan Carroll