Strikes Quotes - Page 2

• If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

  Robert Jordan

  Two, Enemy, Target

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.493, Macmillan

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• Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Children, Boss, Birth Control

  "Is There Really A War on Women or Are Men Just Being Stupid?" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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• A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. 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

  People, Wicked, Desire

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.

  Leigh Brackett

  Powerful, Judging, Allies

  "Fictional character: Yoda". "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back", 1980.

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• Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

  George Lucas

  Change, War, Growth

  The Empire Strikes Back (motion picture) (1980).

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• Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

  George Lucas

  Dark, Destiny, Forever

  George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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

  Fred Allen

  Humorous, Cities, Paris

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• Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Anniversary, Marriage, Husband

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• I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

  Gore Vidal

  Army, Thinking, Democracy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

  George Herbert

  Hands, Sea, Rivers

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.301

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  Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit...

  Stonewall Jackson

  Enemy, Overcoming, Surprise

  "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. II". Book by Robert Underwood Clarence C. Buel, 1884 - 1888.

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• You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

  John Oates

  Retreat, Knows

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• In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Writing, Tone

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Bruce Lee

  Tools, Moments, Martial Arts Inspirational

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.197, Tuttle Publishing

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• I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Eye, Expression

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

  Frederick Buechner

  Prayer, Heart, Dark

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 12, 2017

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• Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Pride, Knowing

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.

  Dave Eggers

  Running, Hurt, Animal

  Dave Eggers (2007). “How We Are Hungry”, p.40, Vintage

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• Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Real, Asteroids, Digital

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Indulge In

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• Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Thinking, Self

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Change, Men, Path

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.411, Lulu.com

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• To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mistake, Matter, Metaphysical

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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