Best 160 quotes in «strikes quotes» category

Enemies strike at weak points.

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

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

Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

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

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.

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

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

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.

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

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

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

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

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

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

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.]

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.

I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

I just want to throw strikes. If I can't throw strikes, I'm worthless.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

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

Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.

It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.

It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

I've been fortunate with the changeup. I've been able to throw it for strikes.

Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.