Best 160 quotes in «strikes quotes» category

It is in children that reality strikes the hardest. And yet, it is the children who weave the brightest dreams.

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

But the workingpeople, the common people, they won't allow it.' 'It's the common people who get most fun out of the torture and execution of great men.... If it's not going too far back I'd like to know who it was demanded the execution of our friend Jesus H. Christ.

Bah! Do you think the poor people of the barrio pay for the upkeep of the Church? No! Wealth flows from wealth! And sources of wealth need stability to exist! And the Church provides stability! We teach the poor how to bear their burden; they are promised the kingdom of heaven, which is far more important than the little gains your strike would make …

The chief signifi cance of the comprehensive systems of unemployment compensation that have been adopted in all Western countries, however, is that they operate in a labor market dominated by the coercive action of unions and that they have been designed under strong union influence with the aim of assisting the unions in their wage policies. A system in which a worker is regarded as unable to fi nd employment and therefore is entitled to benefit because the workers in the fi rm or industry in which he seeks employment are on strike necessarily becomes a major support of union wage pressure. Such a system, which relieves the unions of the responsibility for the unemployment that their policies create and which places on the state the burden not merely of maintaining but of keeping content those who are kept out of jobs by them, can in the long run only make the employment problem more acute.

The biggest blowback is when ur mind strikes with "But" and "If".

Sometimes by holding onto what you love the most — you end up choking the very life from the thing you want to keep on living. It’s possible to try too hard, to love something so deeply that you lose yourself. The danger is never in loving someone — but losing your identity in the process. Because what happens when tragedy strikes? You’re left an empty shell. You’re left with nothing.

They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.

Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.

A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship.

Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Dad, Thanks for being my biggest fan, even when I strike-out.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

Did it ever strike you, Jennifer [Palmieri], that maybe [Hillary Clinton] is a lousy candidate?

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

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I asked, 'Are you kidding?', and he said, 'Yeah.' I like 'Airborne,' its very pure.

Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

Enemies strike at weak points.

Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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