Strikes Quotes - Page 26

• 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 also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.

  Lenny Breau

  Music, Piano, Doe

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• True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

  Nicholas Lore

  Mean, Independence, Being Free

  Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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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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• When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Enemy, Anarchy

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• Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Government, Sight, Important

  John Maynard Keynes (2011). “Essays in Persuasion”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'

  Charles Spurgeon

  War, Winning, Men

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• My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

  Edmond Rostand

  Heart, Men, Mustache

  Edmond Rostand (1995). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Talonbooks Limited

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• When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

  Tony Abbott

  Media, Umpires, Complaining

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• For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

  Queen Victoria

  Women, Thinking, Wicked

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• Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

  Hafez al-Assad

  Dust, Skulls, Enemy

  "Six Days of War". Book by Michael Oren, p. 293, April 18, 2002.

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• A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

  William Howard Taft

  Children, Men, People

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• Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.

  Shaka

  Military, Enemy, Tribes

  "Shaka Zulu: The Rise of the Zulu Empire". Book by E. A. Ritter, p. 50, 1955.

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• Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

  Adrian Beltre

  Trying, Balls, Kind

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• By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

  James Geary

  Thinking, Discovery, Together

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• Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Mean, Sky

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