Strikes Quotes - Page 18

• If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

  John Bates Clark

  Men, Gains, Violence

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• The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Midnight, Orion

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• We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot.

  Richard Sharp

  Opportunity, Iron, Hot

  Richard Sharp (1834). “Letters and essays in prose and verse [by R.Sharp].”, p.29

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• To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

  James Roby

  Success, Art, Skills

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• The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Men, Double Standard

  Following the Equator ch. 13, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. Then you realize that the ball that went by you for a strike was your pitch.

  Bobby Murcer

  Thinking, Swings, Focus

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• If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.

  Doc Bundy

  Car, Racing, Lightning

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• Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know

  Henry Adams

  War, Heart, Enemy

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• I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

  Kyffin Williams

  Sadness, Autumn, Years

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• For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

  Winston Churchill

  Air, Flesh, Bullets

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

  W. H. Auden

  Cancer, Men, Fire

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• Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Blow, Would Be

  Frederick Douglass, George L. Ruffin (2001). “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time”, p.415, Digital Scanning Inc

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• Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

  Charles Kettering

  Ideas, Enough, Working It

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• [He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ability, Remains, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

  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.107, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Blow

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2644, Manonmani Publishers

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• Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Garden

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.

  Harriet Lerner

  Believe, True Joy, Personal Growth

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• When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Inspiration

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• Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspiration, Positivity, Long Ago

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• The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorrent that God had to kill himself. He had to embody the human form and send himself on a bizarre suicide mission just to revoke the disgustingness of the humans he created. I balk at suggestions that these ideas dictate to the concepts of morality and love.

  Trevor Treharne

  Suicide, Jesus, Atheist

  Trevor Treharne (2012). “How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism”, p.188, Universal-Publishers

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• There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and said we don’t live in a democracy. That’s a little intense when an ex-president says that. So you know, he’s got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law professor.

  Matt Damon

  Law, Nsa, Democracy

  "Matt Damon: Obama 'broke up with me'" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. August 08, 2013.

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• In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the room start to vibrate. It is just the same when we express a pure wish in our ardent prayers: all around us we mobilize angels who are inspired by the same wish.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Prayer, Angel, Echoes

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• It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football.

  Mary Karr

  Football, Boys, Play

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.112, Penguin

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• It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

  Ovid

  Sight, Sea, Land

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