Best 160 quotes in «strikes quotes» category

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.

Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

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

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.

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.

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.

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

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

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 terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

When the iron is hot, strike.

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

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

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

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

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

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

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

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 …

You never know, lightning could strike.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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