Best 160 quotes in «strikes quotes» category

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

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

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

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

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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

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.

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

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

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

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.

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

Swing at the strikes.

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

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

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.

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

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 plague of gold strikes far and near.

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

There is no first strike in Karate.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

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

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.

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