Strikes Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt,
  Leap, leap between us and the easy out;
  Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go;
  Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.

  Marie Ponsot

  Letting Go, Sleep, Doubt

  Marie Ponsot (2013). “Springing: New and Selected Poems”, p.64, Knopf

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• I don’t need to go out there and trick guys, and I don’t need to go out there and be perfect. I've just got to attack the strike zone, let my stuff work and get much better results that way.

  Stephen Strasburg

  Perfect, Guy, Needs

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• I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other hand, I had noticed that baseball announcers seemed to go right on forever. Bob Elson has been calling balls and strikes since the beginning of time. Harry Caray must have started with Abner Doubleday, and was still going strong.

  Lindsey Nelson

  Sports, Baseball, Strong

  Lindsey Nelson (1985). “Hello everybody, I'm Lindsey Nelson”, William Morrow & Company

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• Lots of people were giving me flak when I made the deal to do the very last season of Scrubs for $350,000 an episode. When really I'm the one that's being cheated, because the writer's strike is keeping me from all the money that I could be making. I need to eat, too.

  Zach Braff

  People, Giving, Needs

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• Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

  Tony La Russa

  Three, Stills, Can Do

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• Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

  Tony La Russa

  Baseball, Animal, Bats

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• Strike with the soul, and you will never miss.

  Kelly Bates

  Missing, Soul

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• It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves doubting the validity of the virtues we have been taught. But I believe we must reckon with character in the end, for it is as potent a force in world conflict as it is in our own domestic affairs. It strikes the last blow in any battle.

  Philip D. Reed

  Success, Believe, Character

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• Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wind, Collaboration, Clock

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• My mom had always wanted me to better myself. I wanted to better myself because of her. Now when the strikes started, I told her I was going to join the union and the whole movement. I told her I was going to work without pay. She said she was proud of me. (His eyes glisten. A long, long pause.) See, I told her I wanted to be with my people. If I were a company man, nobody would like me anymore. I had to belong to somebody and this was it right here.

  Roberto Acuna

  Mom, Eye, Men

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• Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.

  Milton Friedman

  Fighting, Blow, Law

  "Tyranny of the status quo".

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• It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “Glimpses of Bengal: Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895”

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