Strikes Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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.

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.

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

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

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.

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

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

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

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

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.

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.

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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'.

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.

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

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

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

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

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

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