Strikes Quotes - Page 37

• To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Trust, Military, Heart

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• I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

  Dick Wolf

  Work, Community, Members

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• After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

  Barack Obama

  Loyalty, Leather Jackets, Names

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.101, Canongate Books

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• While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Responsibility, Ties, People

  "Q&A: Odom on an Iraq Exit Strategy". Interview with Bernard Gwertzman, www.nytimes.com. May 7, 2004.

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• Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.

  Bernie Siegel

  Thanksgiving, Attitude, Life Changing

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• Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"

  George Will

  Men, Yankees, Umpires

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• I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

  Ozzie Smith

  Player, Thinking, Umpires

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• I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story. So I think there's a middle ground that I try to strike... away from where everyone else seems ready to go, which is, setup, payoff. You know, He's afraid of water, oh, and at the end he's swimming in water - oh, my God. I hate that stuff.

  Shane Black

  Hate, Writing, Swimming

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". Interview with Harmony Korine, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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• There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.

  William Cartwright

  Light, Two, Soul

  William Cartwright, “To Chloe,Who For His Sake Wished Herself Younger”

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• He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Hurt, Children, Echoes

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

  Frank Yerby

  New Orleans, Sea, Rivers

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• Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Years, America

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• If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Giving

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.23, OUP Oxford

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• They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Giving, Bird

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• The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is not abstract in the sense of having no human content I want to communicate. I want the idea to strike right away.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Ideas, Important, Want

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• A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

  Stan Musial

  Important, Bats, Balls

  "Talking hitting with Stan Musial and Tony Gwynn". Sporting News Magazine Interview, www.sportingnews.com. July 28, 1997.

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• The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Wise, Men, Watches

  Joe Abercrombie (2014). “Half a King”, p.90, Del Rey

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• God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

  George W. Bush

  Als, Al Qaeda, Taliban

  "‘How Bush Rules’" by Sidney Blumenthal, www.nytimes.com. September 24, 2006.

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• Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

  Yann Martel

  Joy, Understanding, Feelings

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.98, Canongate Books

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• Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Together, Littles

  Herman Melville (2003). “Moby-Dick”, p.604, Bantam Classics

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• This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

  Antonin Artaud

  Beautiful, True Beauty, Sun

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.71, Grove Press

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• And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Thinking, Sorrow, Age

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 6

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• Libertarianism is the simple morality we learned as children: Don’t strike first, don’t steal or cheat, keep your promises. If you inadvertently fail to live up to these standards, make it up to the person you’ve harmed. If someone harms you, you may defend yourself as needed to stop the aggressor and obtain reparations. This simple morality works group-to-group just as it works one-to-one to bring about a peaceful and prosperous world.

  Mary Ruwart

  Children, Simple, Peaceful

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• Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual — the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the poisoner of goodwill. If you allow such people room to operate, others will succumb to their influence. Do not wait for the troubles they cause to multiply, do not try to negotiate with them — they are irredeemable. Neutralize their influence by isolating or banishing them. Strike at the source of the trouble and the sheep will scatter.

  Robert Greene

  Strong, Sheep, Often Is

  "The 48 Laws Of Power". Book by Robert Greene, 2010.

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• Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Weather, Quality, Profit Margin

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