Best 160 quotes in «strikes quotes» category

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

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.

Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

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

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

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

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

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

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

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

Swing at the strikes.

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

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 plague of gold strikes far and near.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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 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.