Best 160 quotes in «strikes quotes» category

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.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook.

Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there.

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.

[Steven] Lerner's plan starts by attacking JP Morgan Chase with demonstrations on Wall Street, protests at the annual shareholder meeting, and then calls for a coordinated mortgage strike.

Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.

Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

Strike the ignorants with the hammer of knowledge, wherever and whenever you see them!

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.

Swing at the strikes.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

There is no first strike in Karate.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.