The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.
Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.
Grain is the brush stroke of photography.
I've never once heard my mom complain about her stroke.
The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.
A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you, it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt, there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk.
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane. . . .
Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.
Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult
One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.
Don't blow your load on the first stroke, fellas.
A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.
One stroke fells not an oke.
Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.
Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.