Best 160 quotes in «strikes quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

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

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

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.

Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

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

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

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

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

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 enjoy when I strike someone out. I enjoy when I do my job.

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.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]