Best 160 quotes in «strikes quotes» category

What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis; not the young, cool guy, always the bloated fool.

When I make fun of you, I strike just the right note. When you make fun of me, you're an incredibly ungrateful asshole and you know why.

When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws.

When lightning strikes you want to be there, right there in the room. You, not everybody`s going to say yes to you. Just don`t ever say no to yourself, ever.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

When the iron is hot, strike.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.

When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

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.

You have to strike the deals, and they have an interest in them. With a revenue share model where you're already splitting with the studios, you have to do something with Fandango and so on.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

You never know, lightning could strike.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

...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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

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.

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

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

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