Quotes about Strikes

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. Votes: 6

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. Votes: 6

Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain. Votes: 4

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Votes: 4

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Votes: 4

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. Votes: 4

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. Votes: 4

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. Votes: 4

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. Votes: 4

Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand! Votes: 4

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. Votes: 4

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. Votes: 4

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. Votes: 4

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. Votes: 4

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. Votes: 4

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. Votes: 4

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. Votes: 4

One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow. Votes: 4

Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets. Votes: 4

Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups. Votes: 4

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything. Votes: 3

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone. Votes: 3

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy. Votes: 3

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root. Votes: 3

I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins. Votes: 3

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy. Votes: 3

I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet. Votes: 3

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression. Votes: 3

Best friends are together through it all. Like soil & roots. One needing the other through chilling winters, scorching summers, through hailstorms & lightning Strikes. They weather it together." Votes: 3

Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams. Votes: 3

I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wars' fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me. Votes: 3

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old. Votes: 3

I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me. Votes: 3

I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters. Votes: 3

This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place. Votes: 3

You should remember that I started as a fanboy many years ago; I saw 'A New Hope' more than twenty times in the theater. I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' nearly thirty times. Votes: 3

[Thinking about his first day if he were the Fuhrer] "On that day, all female officers will be required to wear... tiny miniskirts!" [Strikes pose] Roy Mustang, The Flame Alchemist, Full metal Alchemist Votes: 3

I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont. Votes: 3

I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out. Votes: 3

I usually dislike second books in series. The only second installment I ever loved was 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and I think that was wonderful because it evolved the characters while not seeming like a bridge. Votes: 3

Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies. Votes: 3

A good spicy challenge strikes a balance between flavour and fear. Votes: 2

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. Votes: 2

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends. Votes: 2

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. Votes: 2

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. Votes: 2

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background. Votes: 2

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on. Votes: 2

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. Votes: 2

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. Votes: 2

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. Votes: 2

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk. Votes: 2

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house. Votes: 2

The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there. Votes: 2

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it. Votes: 2

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue. Votes: 2

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. Votes: 2

I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to. Votes: 2

There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew. Votes: 2

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all. Votes: 2

There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down. Votes: 2

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; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are. Votes: 2

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment. Votes: 2

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. Votes: 2

Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood. Votes: 2

Swing at the strikes. Votes: 0

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. Votes: 0

Inspiration strikes at very funny times. Votes: 0

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. Votes: 0

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior. Votes: 0

When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly. Votes: 0

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. Votes: 0

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes. Votes: 0

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root. Votes: 0

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Votes: 0

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes. Votes: 0

The plague of gold strikes far and near. Votes: 0

A mere nothing suffices "” and the lightning strikes. Votes: 0

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl. Votes: 0

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest. Votes: 0

...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk. Votes: 0

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response. Votes: 0

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes. Votes: 0

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. Votes: 0

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. Votes: 0

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once. Votes: 0

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging. Votes: 0

Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force. Votes: 0

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil? Votes: 0

Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis. Votes: 0

Like the crocodile, he strikes always at the weakest spot. Votes: 0

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized. Votes: 0

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both Votes: 0

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains. Votes: 0

God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm. Votes: 0

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes! Votes: 0

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind. Votes: 0

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S. Votes: 0

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S. Votes: 0

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm. Votes: 0

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to. Votes: 0

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation. Votes: 0

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently. Votes: 0

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head. Votes: 0

If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right. Votes: 0

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. Votes: 0

A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship. Votes: 0

If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault. Votes: 0

I'm pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself. Votes: 0

Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces. Votes: 0

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last. Votes: 0

Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up. Votes: 0

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance. Votes: 0

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify. Votes: 0

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see. Votes: 0

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. Votes: 0

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. Votes: 0

I just want to throw strikes. If I can't throw strikes, I'm worthless. Votes: 0

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? Votes: 0

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes. Votes: 0

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. Votes: 0

That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment. Votes: 0

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match. Votes: 0

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin. Votes: 0

Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless. Votes: 0

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men. Votes: 0

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker Votes: 0

Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen. Votes: 0

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable. Votes: 0

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct. Votes: 0

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more. Votes: 0

Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire. Votes: 0

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs. Votes: 0

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. Votes: 0

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it. Votes: 0

I've been fortunate with the changeup. I've been able to throw it for strikes. Votes: 0

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. Votes: 0

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old. Votes: 0

I do not always listen again but if something strikes me, I exploit it. Votes: 0

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. Votes: 0

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. Votes: 0

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. Votes: 0

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down Votes: 0

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day. Votes: 0

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax. Votes: 0

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. Votes: 0

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind. Votes: 0

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music. Votes: 0

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes. Votes: 0

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone. Votes: 0

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit. Votes: 0

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. Votes: 0

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy. Votes: 0

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society. Votes: 0

Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman. Votes: 0

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own. Votes: 0

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects. Votes: 0

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. Votes: 0

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire. Votes: 0

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security. Votes: 0

Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes. Votes: 0

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal. Votes: 0

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt. Votes: 0

The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone. Votes: 0

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. Votes: 0

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that. Votes: 0

The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal. Votes: 0

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it. Votes: 0

It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down. Votes: 0

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that Votes: 0

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place. Votes: 0

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords. Votes: 0

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive. Votes: 0

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen. Votes: 0

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. Votes: 0

Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again. Votes: 0

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect. Votes: 0

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists. Votes: 0

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. Votes: 0

When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. Votes: 0

It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all. Votes: 0

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition. Votes: 0

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes. Votes: 0

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do. Votes: 0

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight. Votes: 0

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. Votes: 0

In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves. Votes: 0

But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy. Votes: 0

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble. Votes: 0

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. Votes: 0

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us. Votes: 0

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down. Votes: 0

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul. Votes: 0

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life. Votes: 0

Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes. Votes: 0

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit. Votes: 0

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. Votes: 0

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. Votes: 0

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. Votes: 0

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. Votes: 0

If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand. Votes: 0

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes. Votes: 0

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property. Votes: 0

Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail,So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger. Votes: 0

The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre. Votes: 0

He works fast. He throws a lot of strikes. That's what an infielder loves. It gets you into the game. Votes: 0

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. Votes: 0

Keep everything simple, don't try anything crazy and all your strikes must be hard! NOTHING WEAK, no jabs or weak attacks. Votes: 0

Thinking people, when disaster strikes, make it their priority to look for its causes, in order to prevent it happening again. Votes: 0

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. Votes: 0

What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea. Votes: 0

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. Votes: 0

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery, Votes: 0

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time. Votes: 0

Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it. Votes: 0

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times. Votes: 0

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart. Votes: 0

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed. Votes: 0

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes. Votes: 0

all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction Votes: 0

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose. Votes: 0

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls. Votes: 0

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it. Votes: 0

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world. Votes: 0

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights. Votes: 0

I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria. Votes: 0

The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high. Votes: 0

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. Votes: 0

...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. Votes: 0

To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach. Votes: 0

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. Votes: 0

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. Votes: 0

Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore. Votes: 0

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy. Votes: 0

What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis, not the young, cool guy... Votes: 0

war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people. Votes: 0

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it Votes: 0

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it. Votes: 0

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true. Votes: 0

Leigh [ Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door. Votes: 0

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather. Votes: 0

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken. Votes: 0

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes. Votes: 0

While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded. Votes: 0

Truth is we are all tragedies waiting to happen; we just have to remember to have the rescue crew nearby when it strikes. Votes: 0

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison. Votes: 0

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it. Votes: 0

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men. Votes: 0

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. Votes: 0

So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love. Votes: 0

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. Votes: 0

Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem. Votes: 0

The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies. Votes: 0

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes. Votes: 0

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely." Votes: 0

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely. Votes: 0

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation. Votes: 0

Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes? Votes: 0

Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more Votes: 0

I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal. Votes: 0

Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath. Votes: 0

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes. Votes: 0

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after. Votes: 0

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder? Votes: 0

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist. Votes: 0

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path. Votes: 0

We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. Votes: 0

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God. Votes: 0

I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major illness or injury strikes. Votes: 0

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter. Votes: 0

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones. Votes: 0

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance. Votes: 0

An earthquake strikes Haiti, and care packages from America are among the first to arrive - and not far behind are former Presidents Clinton and Bush. Votes: 0

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl Votes: 0

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him. Votes: 0

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation? Votes: 0

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance. Votes: 0

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. Votes: 0

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky. Votes: 0

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. Votes: 0

I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision. Votes: 0

No struggle, no success! The strongest thunder strikes often bring the heaviest rainfall! The weight of your fulfillment depends on how wide you cast your nets! Votes: 0

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what? Votes: 0

The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears. Votes: 0

Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body. Votes: 0

Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250. Votes: 0

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. Votes: 0

A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living. Votes: 0

My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life. Votes: 0

I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive. Votes: 0

Lifeboats are decked out on the sides of a ship waiting for when disaster strikes, faith on the other hand is a part of you for whenever. Votes: 0

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with. Votes: 0

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe. Votes: 0

I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean. Votes: 0

Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Votes: 0

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them. Votes: 0

The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.! Votes: 0

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action. Votes: 0

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try. Votes: 0

An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness. Votes: 0

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. Votes: 0

If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign. Votes: 0

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. Votes: 0

Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes. Votes: 0

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you. Votes: 0

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing. Votes: 0

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone. Votes: 0

The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention Votes: 0

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens. Votes: 0

It's time, my childrenWhen the waves rise high When the waters run deepWhen the clock strikes midnightYou'll feel the mark of Zero HourAnd you'll never be the same again Votes: 0

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? Votes: 0

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel. Votes: 0

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it. Votes: 0

I'm not going to be a guy who does dances after he strikes somebody out. I'm not like that. I just want to secure a win. That's my job. Votes: 0

Guys don't want to get to two strikes, so you have to make quality pitches early in the count, try to get them to put the ball in play. Votes: 0

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written. Votes: 0

If you want to strike, strike now. No matter how skillfully a footballer strikes beyond the 90 minutes' regulated time, he makes no influence. Strike now before it becomes too late! Votes: 0

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression. Votes: 0

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation. Votes: 0

The thing about the banjo," says Martin, "is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people. Votes: 0

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. Votes: 0

When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, "Allahu Akbar," because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers. Votes: 0

It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? Votes: 0

Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve. Votes: 0

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense. Votes: 0

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last. Votes: 0

Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then. Votes: 0

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. Votes: 0

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all. Votes: 0

I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things. Votes: 0

Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have. Votes: 0

There is no Muslim version of 'love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you' or 'if anyone strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also'. Votes: 0

Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in. Votes: 0

A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard. Votes: 0

To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views. Votes: 0

It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill. Votes: 0

The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision. Votes: 0

Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom. Votes: 0

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought. Votes: 0

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world. Votes: 0

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife. Votes: 0

All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes. Votes: 0

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes. Votes: 0

When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful. Votes: 0

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible. Votes: 0

I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things. Votes: 0

I'm a power guy. Good fastball. A knuckle curve, which I can throw for strikes. A changeup which sinks down and away from lefties and I can also throw for strikes. Votes: 0

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around. Votes: 0

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close. Votes: 0

A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight! Votes: 0

There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you're down. Votes: 0

It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a proposition, who does things. Votes: 0

There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it. Votes: 0

Bad days will come for each one of us, and the more we've thought these things through ahead of time, the better prepared we'll be when tragedy strikes or struggles emerge. Votes: 0

I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people Votes: 0

It was a Russian airplane that was bombed over the Sinai Peninsula. When the Russians conduct air strikes on IS, they are doing so because they too are threatened by terror. Votes: 0

We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions. Votes: 0

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano. Votes: 0

For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object. Votes: 0

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?). Votes: 0

There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety. Votes: 0

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer’s mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation... Votes: 0

Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success. Votes: 0

It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that several Iraqi army divisions have melted away. Votes: 0

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch. Votes: 0

Infectious smile has infected tears The laughter strikes with spears I am not dear and they are not sincere Feeling fear I must perform For when I stop the stage is gone Votes: 0

I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial. Votes: 0

The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good. Votes: 0

Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life. Votes: 0

As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences. Votes: 0

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime. Votes: 0

Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language. Votes: 0

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance. Votes: 0

There were between 46 and 52 drone strikes under the [George W.] Bush administration. And now there are over 400 - that's not counting Afghanistan. So this has been tremendously increased under the [Barack] Obama administration. Votes: 0

I mean the reason the sit-down strikes struck such fear in the hearts of management was that they knew that a sit-down strike was just one step short of taking over the factory. Votes: 0

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force. Votes: 0

I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in the United States and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine. Votes: 0

But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals. Votes: 0

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. Votes: 0

What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan. Votes: 0

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. Votes: 0

Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives. Votes: 0

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. Votes: 0

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. Votes: 0

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today. Votes: 0

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance Votes: 0

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes. Votes: 0

What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousness that the community exists. Votes: 0

Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants? Votes: 0

I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered. Votes: 0

IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly. Votes: 0

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes. Votes: 0

Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid. Votes: 0

Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. Votes: 0

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground. Votes: 0

If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States. Votes: 0

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy. Votes: 0

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.' Votes: 0

...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death. Votes: 0

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism. Votes: 0

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes. Votes: 0

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh. Votes: 0

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth? Votes: 0

Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light Votes: 0

It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength. Votes: 0

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product. Votes: 0

The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin. Votes: 0

It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football. Votes: 0

The other side of midnight’s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sun—together they come Sixteen winters hence—the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire Votes: 0

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others. Votes: 0

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching. Votes: 0

We also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to actually take out ISIS in Raqqa, end their claim of being a Caliphate. Votes: 0

Creativity arises from a constant churn of ideas, and one of the easiest ways to encourage that fertile froth is to keep your mind engaged with your project. When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly. Votes: 0

In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course. Votes: 0

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness. Votes: 0

The air was calm and insects had not yet risen off the water, that crisp time of morning before the sun strikes, when it is still cool enough to work out solutions to sticky problems. Votes: 0

Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact. Votes: 0

The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Haiti. We saw it with Katrina. When devastation strikes, American people want to step up. Votes: 0

What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless. Votes: 0

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. Votes: 0

When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete. Votes: 0

After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items. Votes: 0