Strikes Quotes - Page 22

• The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.

  Alice Walker

  Art, Sight, Color

  Alice Walker (1994). “The Complete Stories”

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• If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

  Aristophanes

  Thinking, Break Off, Trying

  Aristophanes (1927). “The Frogs: And Three Other Plays. Translated by Frere, Hickie, Mitchell and Cumberland”

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• I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was...I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually-usually sometime around 3 in the morning-I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song.

  John Prine

  Song, Morning, Real

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Time, Safety, Public Safety

  Telegram to Samuel Gompers, 14 Sept. 1919

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• Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

  Walter Bagehot

  Time, Wind, Law

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.175, Lulu.com

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• Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Running, Self Confidence

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• The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

  Yiyun Li

  Long, Tragedy, Trying

  Yiyun Li (2014). “Kinder Than Solitude”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information.

  Marvin Kalb

  Jobs, Couple, Impact

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• You know, they say that there is a part
  of the human chest that it you strike it hard enough,
  it makes the person’s heart explode. This sounds like
  such a lie that I have to believe it’s the truth. If I were
  science, I’d never tell anyone where this place is.
  If I were science, I’d have named this place after you.

  Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (2013). “Everything Is Everything”, p.68, SCB Distributors

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• If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Independent, Opportunity, Shining

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• There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

  Bill Engvall

  Suicide, Hunger Strike, California

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 25, 2013

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

  Bruce Lee

  Cobras, Should, Felt

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do".

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

  Sally Field

  Magic, Sometimes, Do The Best

  "Sally Field, ‘Lincoln’ Star, On Politics And Looking Back On ‘Smokey And The Bandit’". Interview With Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.

  Mark Cuban

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Luck

  "Mark Cuban: America’s Coolest Billionaire". Interview with Daniel Jimenez, finance.youngmoney.com. 2008.

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• I would be saying to the Iranians, you either open those facilities, begin to dismantle them and make them available to inspectors or we will degrade those facilities though air strikes. And make it very public that we are doing that. Iran would not get a nuclear weapon under my watch.

  Rick Santorum

  Air, Iran, Watches

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• When conservative judges strike down laws, it's because of what's in the Constitution. When liberal judges strike down laws (or impose new laws), it's because of what's in the New York Times

  Ann Coulter

  New York, Law, Judging

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• They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

  Kathi Appelt

  Lightning, Turns, Begets

  Kathi Appelt (2013). “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• The writers' strike a couple years ago was a bonanza for reality TV shows new and old.

  Carole Nelson Douglas

  Couple, Reality, Years

  Carole Nelson Douglas (2009). “Cat in a Topaz Tango: A Midnight Louie Mystery”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Cormoran Strike is an amazing creation and I can't wait for his next outing. Strike is so instantly compelling that it's hard to believe this is a debut novel. I hope there are plenty more Cormoran Strike adventures to come. A beautifully written debut novel introducing one of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years.

  Mark Billingham

  Believe, Adventure, Unique

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• Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.

  Ghassan Kanafani

  Latin, Heart, America

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• There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

  Damon Galgut

  Morning, Blue, Sky

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• There is no first strike in Karate.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Firsts, Martial Arts, Karate

  Gichin Funakoshi, Genwa Nakasone, Jotaro Takagi (2003). “空手道二十訓: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master”, p.23, Kodansha International

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• When a man walks in the fear of God he knows no fear, even if he were to be surrounded by wicked men. He has the fear of God within him and wears the invincible armor of faith. This makes him strong and able to take on anything, even things which seem difficult or impossible to most people. Such a man is like a giant surrounded by monkeys, or a roaring lion among dogs and foxes. He goes forward trusting in the Lord and the constancy of his will to strike and paralyze his foes. He wields the blazing club of the Word in wisdom.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Dog, Strong, Men

  Saint Symeon (the New Theologian), Paul McGuckin (1982). “The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses”

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• But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.

  Tone-Loc

  "Still Loc'ed After Dark". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. June 2, 2000.

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• Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?

  George W. Bush

  Tyrants, Intention, Said

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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