Strikes Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Strike hard and fast and do not separate.

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.

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.

Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.

Strike fast, strike hard, strike often.

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

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

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

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

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.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

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

Strike, if you will, but listen.

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

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

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

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.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

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

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

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

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis; not the young, cool guy, always the bloated fool.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?

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

I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

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

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

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

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

“I'll never bowl with him again. After he got a strike, he spiked the ball.”

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.

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

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

A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.

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

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

Strike up the drum and march courageously.