Strikes Quotes - Page 28

• As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Law, Creative, Alternatives

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York

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• ...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Growth, Balance, Important

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.96, Best Books on

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• Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stars, Flames, Soldier

  Anne McCaffrey (2016). “Dragonsong”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.

  Jack Irons

  Running, Abbey Road, Waiting

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• I don’t care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don’t care if it wrecks the league for 10 years. This is the United States of America, and one citizen has as much right to play as another.

  Ford Frick

  Years, Play, America

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• And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Brother, Anger

  "Pulp Fiction". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Anger, Blow

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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• The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

  Richard J. Needham

  Normal, Return, Postal Service

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• If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time for the Christians in this country to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. A Christian recruiting strike will compel the Army to think seriously about what it is doing.

  Paul Weyrich

  Christian, Country, Army

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• To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

  Marty Neumeier

  Comfort, Needs, Peers

  Marty Neumeier (2005). “The Brand Gap, Revised Edition”, p.76, Peachpit Press

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• I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered.

  Edward Eggleston

  Healing, Roots, Mind

  Edward Eggleston (1891). “The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York”, Ridgewood, N.J : Gregg Press

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• Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  War, Fighting, Air

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• The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

  Ted Olson

  Morning, Believe, Two

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• The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. The General Strike attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

  Justin Sane

  Reality, Issues, Iphone

  "Anti-Flag’s General Strike Is a Soundtrack for Occupied America" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Sleep, Reality, Darkness

  William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, p.205, SteinerBooks

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• Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Blow, Vices, Committed

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• It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Strong, Powerful, Mind

  "Ironman champ: Your mind matters more" by Chrissie Wellington, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2012.

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• Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.

  Josette Sheeran

  Jobs, War, Fall

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• Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Force, Reader, Chosen

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• Prayer is action. By it we step out in advance of all other results . . . Praying is an activity upon which all others depend. By prayer we establish a beachhead for the kingdom among peoples where it has never been before. Prayer strikes the winning blow. All other missionary efforts simply gather up the fruits of our praying.

  David Bryant

  Prayer, Blow, Winning

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• I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.

  Lucian

  Men, Blow, Divinity

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• A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

  Louis Nizer

  Oil, Doe, Boring

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• It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Art, Military, War

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.128, Bottom of the Hill

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• We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

  Stephen Charnock

  Comfort, Staff

  Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.678

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• The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.

  Arshile Gorky

  Water Of Life, Risk, Secret

  University of Texas at Austin. University Art Museum, Arshile Gorky (1975). “Arshile Gorky: drawings to paintings”

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