Quotation Explorer - 'Hit'

If he can't reach you he can't hit youIf he can't hit you he can't hurt you - Arun D. Ellis
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Genes are overrated...Genes never helped anybody pick the right foods or hit the gym floor at 6 am. Its you as a person; its always been YOU! - Dr Deepak Hiwale, aka 'The Fitness Doc'
You should never hit the snooze button when life gives you a wake up call. - Rob Liano
Almost everybody gets tired and bored by one lackadaisical topic. If you hit them with something delicious, like a sexy adventure, then the world will want to hear you speak, mind you! Don't become a vulgarian. - Michael Bassey Johnson
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.
He who says, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," has not been hit by a dictionary.
Once you hit rock bottom, that's where you perfectly stand; That's your chance of restarting, but restarting the right way. - Justin Kanayurak
If you are without contention and still have the ability to make people think, their ego is going to take a hit and as a result they're not going to like you. They don't want to think. They want to be right, unrivaled or entertained. - Donna Lynn Hope
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases. - John W. Raper
Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' Tom Martin, former VP of marketing - Heather Simmons
To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian. - Roseanne Barr
Love is like a pane of glass.. It can take harsh beatings from the weather around it... But if it gets hit in the right place it shatters.. And when you try to pick it up... You end up getting cut. - Tyler Hoyt
In the long run, you hit only what you aim at: Therefore aim high. - Henry David Thoreau
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. - Flip Wilson
Give your idea a chance. You’ll never hit a home run (or a base hit for that matter) if you don’t swing. - Richie Norton
Falling down ain't falling down,If you don't cry when you hit the floor,It's called the past cause I'm getting past,And I ain't nothing like I was before,You ought to see me now - Alicia Keys
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hurt, resentment, the revenge, the pride, and regret are thrown hard and fast like snowballs in the winter. Some major ones hit hard; some minor ones just roll off, while others stick for an elongated time…as long as we stay in the cold frosty air of not letting go. - Wes Adamson
Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. - Sarah Kay
My first day of teaching, I got hit in the head with a bandstand & needed 4 stitches. Welcome to #NYCity teaching in the 90s. - Ace Antonio Hall
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. - Anne Lamott
Success is measured on how high you bounce once you've hit rock bottom.
. . . there are two types of fighters, the former strike all over the place hoping one would land, the latter, assured of their prowess and capabilities, hit once and destroy the opponent's desire to continue the fight - Soke Behzad Ahmadi
What does religion say? It says that if you care for others then you will meet others who will care for you and if you hit others, you will meet others who will hit you. This is what all relative religions say. - Dada Bhagwan
Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for. - Roy Bennett
On with you, horse-taming Trojans! Never give Greeks best in your will to fight! They are not made of stone or iron. Their flesh can't keep out penetrating spears when they are hit. - Homer
As a HARD ROCK hit the wolf, he crawled back to his favorite beach to gathered sources from his 3S of happiness , sea, sand and sun to refresh his battle faced body ... A triangle with the SHE wolf inside, the ONE that combined all the above to rejuvenate his soul - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
Collision avoidance systems are the next big radio frequency (RF) toxin to hit the USA general population as they become standard safety equipment in most new cars. - Steven Magee
There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way. - Tom Robbins
Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music. - Taylor Swift
I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage'... - Doug Stanhope
If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. - William Shakespeare
Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens. - Richard Curtis
Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn. - Mike Norton
I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom. - Joanne Harris
The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits. - Timothy Ferriss
I'd rater share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop - Kate Jackson
When kids hit the age of one, they're like miniature drunks. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh, then two minutes later they're crying. They drool.
Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball. - Billie Jean King
My non American viewers. Who understand that the world does not consist solely of a single nation sailing across an infinite sea of migrant workers. Will no doubt have heard that the waters surrounding Brisbane got tired of waiting for people to hit the beach and decided to bring the party to us. - Yahtzee Croshaw
Swing ten times,and you may hit once.Swing a hundred times,and you may hit ten times.Swing a thousand times,and you may hit a hundred times.Swing a thousand times,and you may hit a thousand times. - Matshona Dhliwayo
All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'. - Thomas Ligotti
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey
Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. - Annie Oakley
When you are in trouble, you need to put all your energies into thinking that there is a way out. Then, the bottom, the dark hole, becomes just a springboard from which you can leap so high that your head might hit a cloud. - Fatema Mernissi
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. - Steven Wright
hit with your fist, not with your finger spread - Prasetya Ramadhan
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom. - George S. Patton Jr.
Be crazy about your goal and do not stop till time you do not hit the bulls eye. - Rajesh Walecha
nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency. Look--my feet don't hit the marble! Like breath or a balloon, I'm rising, I hover six inches in the air in my blazing swan-egg of light. You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn. - Margaret Atwood
In our beautiful memoryWe were all handsomeWe could all singWe all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in townAnd we all hit .300 - John Buck O'Neil
Can you believe we still around?after so many hit the ground and we ain't gon' stop now until we get that wisdom - knight mayor
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Don’t know what I’m talking about? Don’t know what I’m talking about! My shout hit notes that normally only Wagnerian sopranos can reach. You think you’re a freaking leprechaun, but I don’t know what I’m talking about? - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again. - The Weeknd
Don’t just hit a home run. Knock it out of the park. - A.D. Posey
I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me. - Thomas Browne
The trick about falling is to catch yourself before you hit the dirt. - William Ritter
The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights) - Warren Moore
Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
A hit, a very palpable hit. - William Shakespeare
Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air. - Eric Wald
When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit. - Johnny Depp
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high. - Henry David Thoreau
My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set. - Rick Riordan
Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button. - Germany Kent
Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don't forget to pay the price - Bernard Kelvin Clive
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. - Steve Wright
Intuitions are messenger of opportunities. Hit them with your ability. - Kishore Bansal
So much of personal development and growth comes down to the decisions you make when you hit a wall. Do you spend your time feeling bad for yourself, or do you invest your time in continuing to build toward your dreams? - Andrea Goeglein
Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops. - Frank Muir
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! - Theodore Roosevelt
If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. - Mark Twain
Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down. - Anthony Liccione
The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing. - Hazrat Inayat Khan
In hard times nothing is visible life seems to beat you down, with courage hit the problems ball will be in your court. - Kishore Bansal
Stop thinking of yourself as a victim. You were a target that is now no longer being hit. - Thomas Sheridan
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. - Barry Switzer
I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me. - Kaui Hart Hemmings
Hit me with spit on the wounds. - Gwen Calvo
Karma will hit you. So don't say bullshit. - Ainun Annisa
Thank God I was hit by a truck. It seems that God was trying to get my attention for years but I was so stubborn it took knocking me square out of my body to see him for myself. Next time I will be way more specific when I ask for help to slow me down. - Monika Zands
I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the fact that this wonderful life that we get here is it. And having hit 60, it's a good time to get resigned to these things and not be too nervous or upset - and enjoy what great times one can have. - David Gilmour
Have a courage to repulse those people who dare to affront you, because everyone has an Achilles' heel. Outshine them, and let your light hit on their damned faces, INTENSELY. - Maverick
If you have to have your weapon, at least run it through the grandma test. Take the weapon and hit your grandma with it. If she dies or writes you out of the will, don't bring it! - Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine
You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years. - Chris Rock
Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy. - Muse
You set it, You hit it!And meanwhile you work hard to hit real quick. - Harshvardhan Malpani
It wasn’t closure, really. But I’d said the right things. I’d hit on some truths. Maybe some things didn’t get closure. Maybe some things weren’t really worth it, or didn’t really need it, and after a while the unimportance would become obvious. - Vee Hoffman
A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit. - William Shakespeare
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. - Babe Ruth
Never test good people because they are like diamonds. when you hit them, they will not break but they will only slip away from your life - Moywaywa
Be the Kind of Woman that when Your Feet Hit the Floor Each Morning, the Devil Says, ‘Oh Crap, She’s Up! - Anonymous
And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already--and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in here. I'm still in here. And I don't want to be resented or despised for changing...I'd rather be alone. - Zadie Smith
The crazy game of pilling stones was also in you and your friends’ marvelous innovation. And how really hard you would hit the phony big guy who you hated like anything. - ChildHood
Hit hard, hit fast, hit often.
I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it. - Julian Fellowes
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth... - Sinclair Lewis
Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow. - Shannon L. Alder
Forgiving is not forgetting. It is actually remembering - remembering and not using your right to hit back - Archbishop Desmont Tutu
As a HARD ROCK hit the wolf, he crawled back to his favorite beach to gathered sources from his 3S of happiness, sea, sand and sun... A triangle with HER inside - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
Look― shoot all you want. With a camera you can barely capture a soul at a time. With planned obsolescence, you can terminate everyone's future at once and they'll never know what hit them. - Pansy Schneider-Horst
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-----
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. - Steve Jobs
Be the kind of woman who, when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh, no! She's up. - Joanne Clancy
Level, is spelled the same forward and backwards. Those on the upper level can always hit the bottom, and those on the bottom can always rank to the top. Envision your footprints up there already trailing, and your feet will soon follow suit. - Anthony Liccione
That's when it hit me. I had to go through a lot of bad relationships first, but I'd finally found him. My very own Prince Charming. Turns out they do exist.Touché, Cinderella. Touché. - Cindi Madsen
If you feel completely satisfied, you have hit the right answer, coz if not? you may have missed something, It could be the answer itself or it could be both your prayer and the answer! - Bradley B. Dalina
[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something. - Mercedes Lackey
When someone hurts you, don't hurt him back but hit him with your unconditional love. - Debasish Mridha
Frankly, Pedro Almodóvar's recent box office hit, Volver, is the first movie I've seen in which a young woman's retaliation against sexual violence doesn't ultimately boomerang around to destroy her - Sarah Stillman
Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets. - Anthony Liccione
Everybody's got plans...until they get hit.
You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long. - Hugh Macleod
You've gotta hit as hard as life. It isn't about how hard you hit,It's about how hard you can gethit and keep moving forward. How much can you take and keep moving forward? That's how winning is done. - Rocky Balboa Slyvester Stallone
A person who can think differently and truly on his feet will always find it difficult to sit and fit as an employee in a workplace, for his attitude & approach towards the work will often hit the ego of most co-workers who can’t compete with him on his level of wisdom and wit. - Anuj Somany
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.
You know you’ve officially hit a midlife crisis when you finally start feeling like you have your life together and your body starts falling apart! - Tanya Masse
My son hit his head on a couch and pushed it away. He never went near that couch again. It is amazing what and 1 year old boy can teach you about life. - E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds
His accelerated path to yogihood hit a dead end when his kundalini exploded in a crowded department store. No one else was injured, but Swami caught an inflection which left him with a permanent East Indian accent. - Swami Beyondananda
Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, What is it that you want from me? - Shannon L. Alder
If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work. - Alice Bag
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. - Upton Sinclair
As your attorney i advise you to take a hit out of the small brown bottle in my shaving kit. - Hunter S. Thompson
As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone. - Brian Celio
You can't attack the giants in your life, if you are not aiming to strike and hit the target. You can't run a race in vain, if you have no plans to win or finish it. Start, strive and aim high...never give up. Your best is yet to come! - Kemi Sogunle
My concern is to help people find out how they could best live their lives to hit the mark almost every single time. - Sunday Adelaja
It is not enough to aim; you must hit. - Italian Proverb
There's only one way to fall down, but you won't know till you hit the ground.
At some point, you will hit a plateau. If you keep doing same things you did to get to that point, make a change. - J.R. Rim
Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct. - Sam Stevens
We can not say for the memories "go away", we can only protect us as they hit. - Davi Oliveira
You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have. - Zig Ziglar
Muslim children should be raised with the understanding that once they hit puberty they are adults and Mukallaf (responsible for their actions). This understanding is crucial to assist them in passing the tests of youth. - Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar
As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish. - George Soros
I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me. - Lady Gaga
I’m afraid you cannot leave,' said Zarniwoop, 'you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape.' He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it. - Douglas Adams
Strength does not come in those times when you hit the mark; it comes in those times when you strive to but miss. - Deborah Brodie
A well hit golf shot is a feeling that goes up the shaft, right through your hands and into your heart. - Ben Hogan
Aim and hit the target of excellence, with constant practice. Make success happen, by working to be the best at what you do. - Mark F. LaMoure
Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there. - Toni Cade Bambara
Relationships have their ups and downs, however if the downs outweigh the ups, then its probably time to hit the door - Epiphana Lewis
The other day, a friend of a friend said that everyone started out as girls, but boys evolved… But don’t worry girls, I hit him. - Ben Mitchell
I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it.... - 50 Cent
If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car - Judy Gold
Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea. - Richie Norton
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive? - Roseanne Barr
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you. - Sara Sheridan
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