Best 160 quotes in «strikes quotes» category

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

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 …

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

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

Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.

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

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

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

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Enemies strike at weak points.

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

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

Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

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

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

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.

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

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

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