Strikes Quotes - Page 13

• Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Blow, Winning

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• The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a last resort, they become powerless. The strike is therefore not a breakdown of collective bargaining-it is the indispensable cornerstone of that process.

  Paul Clark

  Struggle, Skills, Unions

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• Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his skin with each foot strike so that he ran in a hot mist of his own creation. With each slap on the softened asphalt, his soles absorbed heat that rose through his arches and ankles and the stems of his shins. It was a carnival of pain, but he loved each stride because running distilled him to his essence and the heat hastened this distillation.

  James Tabor

  Running, Pain, Fire

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• Yo, it's 1 universal law but 2 sides to every story,
  3 strikes and you be in for life, mandatory.
  4 MC's murdered in the last 4 years,
  I ain't tryin to be the 5th one, the Millennium is here.
  Yo, it's 6 million ways to die, from the 7 deadly thrills,
  8-year olds gettin' found with 9 mill's.
  It's 10 P.M., where your seeds at? What's the deal?

  Mos Def

  Rap, Years, Law

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• I don't wanna dance, baby girl, it's like my legs is on strike.

  Killa Sin

  Girl, Baby, Rap

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• I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Presidential, Want, Labor

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.176, Fordham Univ Press

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• It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, America

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1980). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Perfect, Worry

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• He who would be free must strike the first blow.

  Frederick Douglass

  Blow, Would Be, Firsts

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• One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

  Georges Danton

  Kings, Tyrants, Arms

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• The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world.

  Isaac Asimov

  Peace, Fear, Military

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• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Cheer, Iron, Political

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• Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

  Jacob Hacker

  Retirement, Believe, Hard Work

  "Online Extra: The Free Market's "Softer Side"". Interview with Lee Walczak, www.bloomberg.com. March 17, 2005.

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• I fully support President Bush's decision to strike Al Qaeda's terrorist network. Now more than ever, we must stand united as a nation and support our President and our military. It is important to remember that this carefully targeted response is not an attack on a religion, nor a nation, but an attack on terrorism. In Congress, we will continue to work with the White House to do what's needed to bring justice to those who committed the heinous and evil attacks of September 11.

  Tom Harkin

  Military, White, Evil

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• The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers.

  Paul Keating

  Self, Ideas, Australia

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• I'm very blessed to have a husband who appreciates me. Women feel sexy from feeling attractive and desired. Men feel sexy from having sex. If you can strike a balance where the man is having sex a lot and the woman is feeling desired enough to have sex, then you've figured out the secret to a marriage that's alive.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Sexy, Husband, Blessed

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Gentleman, Provocation

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Real, Heart, Men

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• I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you have the opportunity, you strike.

  Rod Laver

  Opportunity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Government, Uprising, Enemy

  Speech at Royal Albert Hall, London, 17 Oct. 1912

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• I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

  Merle Travis

  Sweet, Fruit, Bitterness

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• There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

  Hilary Mantel

  Blow, Hands, Feelings

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• When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

  Lucian Freud

  Giving, Choices, Doe

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

  F. R. Leavis

  Paradise, Lost, Bricklaying

  "Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry". Book by F. R. Leavis, 1936.

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