Best 160 quotes in «strikes quotes» category

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

I do not always listen again but if something strikes me, I exploit it.

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.

I enjoy when I strike someone out. I enjoy when I do my job.

I just want to throw strikes. If I can't throw strikes, I'm worthless.

I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

I've been fortunate with the changeup. I've been able to throw it for strikes.

I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.