Strikes Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there are no bad books, no plastic, no insurance premiums, and of cours eno illness. Contrition does not exist, nor gnashing of teeth. No one howls as the first clod of earth hits the casket. The poor we no longer have with us. Our calm hearts strike only the hour, and God, as promised, proves to be mercy clothed in light.

  Jane Kenyon

  Book, Heart, Eye

  Jane Kenyon, “Notes From The Other Side”

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• It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Airplane, Men, Discovery

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• Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

  Plutarch

  Food, Dark, Clouds

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• Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.

  Sammy Sosa

  Mind, Chance, Easier

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• A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lightning, Steppenwolf, Mere

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Growth, Investing

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• I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

  Todd Rokita

  Knees, Looking Forward, Politician

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• The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you're going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

  Michael Meade

  Block, Real, Life Changing

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• Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'

  Paul Tillich

  Pain, Light, Voice

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• I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.

  Misbah-ul-Haq

  Player, Average, Rate

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• How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain of nothingness. My fear was of the weather, the atmosphere, the very air. What good did safety tips do me now? 'Avoid water, metal objects, rooftops; stay off the telephone in a storm, don't think glass can protect you; even if a storm was 8 miles away, you're still not safe from a strike. Avoid life perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip, stay away from it all.

  Alice Hoffman

  Pain, Fear, Thinking

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• I’ve never been able to understand ‘faith’ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones — by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether a universe or a smaller one.

  Jubal

  Running, Organization, Able

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• Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

  Samuel Rogers

  Thinking, Paris, Mind

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• I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

  Moby

  Sun, Insulted, Ifs

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• I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

  Bruce Sutter

  Mean, Guy, Might

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