Strikes Quotes - Page 15

• A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Men, Balance

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.43, Transaction Publishers

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• If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Revenge, Enemy, Energy

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• My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Silence, Sound

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• Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Criticism, Critics

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• Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Blow, Criticism

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• Tito Santana is like a cue-ball. The more you strike him, the more english you get out of him.

  Bobby Heenan

  Wrestling, Wwe, Balls

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• My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

  Willie Lanier

  Football, Opportunity, Player

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• Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.

  Jemima Khan

  Military, Simple, People

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• Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.

  Eudora Welty

  Sky, Rivers, Water

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

  Tillie Olsen

  Doe, Results, Occasional

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• If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of communication, more direct methods, will strike you as being more available.

  Margot Livesey

  Communication, Writing, World

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• You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Running, Kings

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• Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune.

  Thomas Adams

  Heart, Eye, Ahab

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• Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.

  Joe Lieberman

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Air

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• Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

  Jim Clyburn

  House, Balance, Environmental

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• People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

  Fanny Burney

  Air, People, Together

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3768, Delphi Classics

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• Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

  Anne Michaels

  War, Stalking, Contradiction

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.73, A&C Black

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• I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.

  Balthus

  Thinking, Order, People

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• If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Hearing, Nasty

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• I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

  Bruce Braley

  Opportunity, Iraq, Giving

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• To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood...

  Henry Newbolt

  Eye, Land, Games

  Sir Henry Newbolt, “Clifton Chapel”

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• Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

  George W. Bush

  War, Secret, Battle

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Things In Life, Accepting

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• African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.

  Laurence M. Keitt

  War, Political, Fabric

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• You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

  Peter Shaffer

  Imagination, Leave Me Alone, Never Quit

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