“Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Stroke follow strokes, the sparkling ingot shines,/ Flows the red slag, the lengthening bar refines;/ Cold waves, immersed, the glowing mass congeal,/ And turn to adamant the hissing Steel.”
Erasmus Darwin
“Though Cato lived, though Tully spoke, though Brutus dealt the godlike stroke, yet perished fated Rome”
Robert Craggs Nugent
“It really hadn't hit him yet how sick his dad was. He's had a number of strokes and he always ended up going home.”
David Gonzales
“He hasn't started working out hard yet. I don't know enough about his stroke. He missed a lot of playing time in spring training, so I don't know how quick (his return) can be.”
Tony La Russa
“She had always called me, after those strokes. Those strokes were all documented. Then she had a major stroke just a few days after she signed, and she has never been home since.”
Roger Zastrow