Strikes famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.
-- A.A. Attanasio -
Oh Allah, strike the apostate rulers, Oh Allah, kill them one after the other, sparing none.
-- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -
Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
-- Alexander Smith -
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.
-- Amy Ray -
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
-- Andy Rooney -
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin -
A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.
-- Bill Haywood -
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.
-- Charles Kettering -
Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.
-- Charles Rangel -
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
-- Charlotte Bronte -
Strike up the drum and march courageously.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
-- Daniel Boone -
In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.
-- David Bronstein -
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.
-- David Mitchell -
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
-- Diane de Poitiers -
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.
-- Dick Wolf -
It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.
-- Donna Dubinsky -
Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.
-- Dwyane Wade -
The plague of gold strikes far and near.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb
-- Emily Dickinson -
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.
-- F. R. Leavis -
Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.
-- Gottfried Helnwein -
When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.
-- Gretchen Rubin -
The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.
-- H. Rider Haggard -
It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.
-- Hadewijch -
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.
-- Harry Hershfield -
A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
-- Hermann Hesse -
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.]
-- Horace -
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
-- Ian Mcewan -
If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.
-- J. Paul Getty -
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.
-- J.R. Ward -
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
-- James Connolly -
For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.
-- Jeannie Gunn -
I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike.
-- Jim Kern -
A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship.
-- John Hookham Frere -
There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness
-- Jonathan Mayhew -
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.
-- Jorge Posada -
There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.
-- Joseph Joubert -
It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
-- Kate Flannery -
A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.
-- Katherine Boo -
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.
-- Kathi Appelt -
Strike with the soul, and you will never miss.
-- Kelly Bates -
A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.
-- Kevin Keegan -
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
-- Kingsley Amis -
“I'll never bowl with him again. After he got a strike, he spiked the ball.”
-- Lawrence Taylor -
Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic.
-- Lilian Jackson Braun -
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.
-- Lucinda Williams -
Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.
-- Lucy Parsons -
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
-- Maria Monk -
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.
-- Martin Gore -
... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.
-- Mary Heaton Vorse -
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.
-- Misbah-ul-Haq -
When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.
-- Mohsin Hamid -
He works fast. He throws a lot of strikes. That's what an infielder loves. It gets you into the game.
-- Omar Vizquel -
When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.
-- Ovid -
Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
-- P. N. Elrod -
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.
-- Pete Carroll -
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.
-- Peter Ackroyd -
I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
-- Peter Ackroyd -
cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.
-- Rae Foley -
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
-- Rene Dubos -
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
-- Rene Dubos -
The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.
-- Richard J. Needham -
The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.
-- Richard Savage -
Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
-- Robert Browning -
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
-- Robert Greene -
You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
-- Sally Field -
Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.
-- Sammy Sosa -
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
-- Samuel Gompers -
Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.
-- Sarah Sutton -
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
-- Shaka -
And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
-- Sophocles -
We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.
-- Stephen Charnock -
I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.
-- Steven Millhauser -
... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner -
So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.
-- Taylor Swift -
I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake me, oh god of beauty.
-- Theodore Dreiser -
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
-- Theodore Sturgeon -
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
-- Thomas Hardy -
Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
-- Tillie Olsen -
Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.
-- Tony La Russa -
But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.
-- Violeta Chamorro
