Strikes Quotes

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.

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

You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile.

God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm.

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

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

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.

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.

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

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.

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

I've never been starstruck but I may have wanted to strike a star once or twice.

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

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.

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

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.]

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

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

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

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

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike.

Whenever you get game adaptations, it strikes me that it's always the gamers who get mugged because they try and make it for everyone else first and the actual gamers last.

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

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

The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

If you try to hit a grand slam, you’re going to strike out.

John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didnt use it much. He didnt want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

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 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.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

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

Strike with the soul, and you will never miss.

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.

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

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.

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.

[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

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

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.

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

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

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.