Strikes Quotes

Sink twice before you strike out for land.

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.

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

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.

Strike the ignorants with the hammer of knowledge, wherever and whenever you see them!

I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine.

I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.

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.

Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.

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

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.

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

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.

[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

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

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

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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.

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

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

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

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.

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

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

I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.

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.

Did it ever strike you, Jennifer [Palmieri], that maybe [Hillary Clinton] is a lousy candidate?

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.

It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

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

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.

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

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

I am sure that inspiration will strike multiple times - it always does.

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

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.

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

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.