#strikes

I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get yourselves killed. Then don't come crying to me.' Now that would be a neat trick. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #kate-daniels #magic-strikes #life

Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#magic-strikes #cute

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#simile #strikes #washington-post #anxiety

Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn’t expect that. “That’s it? That’s your witty comeback?” “Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#witty

Curran looked at me. “What the hell was I supposed to do, catch the werebison as he was falling? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. ↗

— Fred Allen

#first thing #paris #strikes #taxi #the first thing

I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down! ↗

— John Aspinall

#billion #catastrophe #day #down #earth

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance. ↗

— Frances Burney

#alike #another #catch #contract #countenance

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? ↗

— Kate Chopin

#branches #breathe #chord #detect #ear

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#comes #cycle #destroying #employ #end