Strikes Quotes - Page 34

• The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Men, Gambling

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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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• The president and other government officials denounce school violence, yet still advocate for endless undeclared wars abroad and easy abortion at home. U.S. drone strikes kill thousands, but nobody in America holds vigils or devotes much news coverage to those victims, many of which are children, albeit, of a different color.

  Ron Paul

  Children, War, Home

  "Ron Paul Slams NRA Plan Recommending Armed Officers In Schools", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2012.

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• Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction...it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.

  Elissa Schappell

  Kings, Book, Writing

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• 20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

  Diane Glancy

  Poetry, Earth, Break

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• There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

  Jane Smiley

  Eye, Desire, Blind

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• Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Art, Weapons, Strike Back

  Interview with Marc Kayser, Quest, Berlin, March 2004.

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• The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the combat readiness of the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear forces, the United States would not be able to deal a crippling blow to the socialist countries. The aggressor will not be able to evade an all-crushing retaliatory strike.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  Crush, Country, Blow

  "Physics and Nuclear Arms Today" by David Hafemeister, (p. 94), 1991.

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• It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.

  Hadewijch

  Blow, Code, Written

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• Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.

  Marie Colvin

  Mother, Husband, Children

  "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Mother, Children, Blood

  Kaye Gibbons (1998). “On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.

  Brooks Robinson

  Two, Knuckleballs, Break Out

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• The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Thinking, Discovery, Views

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• Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.116, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.

  George W. Bush

  America, Enemy, Desire

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

  George W. Bush

  Evil, Special, Liberty

  George W. Bush's address to the Nation in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2005.

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• I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  War, Believe, Mean

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.

  George Saunders

  America, Water, Grace

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• Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Roots, White, Quality

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Letting Go, Heart, Dark

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• Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most -- the people who love you -- are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives.

  David J. Lieberman

  Suicide, Pain, Revenge

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• The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

  Kalki Krishnamurthy

  Men, Lightning, World

  "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("Tiruvazhundur Sivakozhundu"), 1999.

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• Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

  Howard Gardner

  School, Students, Aliens

  Howard Gardner (1991). “The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and how Schools Should Teach”, Basic Books

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• Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Inspiration

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• Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

  Horace

  Mountain, Lightning

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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