Strikes Quotes - Page 23

• I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

  Xi Jinping

  Sports, Jobs, Exercise

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• He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memories, War, Our World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.680, Library of Alexandria

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• Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my mode of warfare? With the axe of truth I strike at the root of every tree of error and hew it down, so that there shall not be one error in man showing itself in the form of disease.

  Phineas Quimby

  Health, Fighting, Men

  Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1921). “The Quimby Manuscripts”, p.272, Library of Alexandria

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• Strike hard and fast and do not separate.

  Heinz Guderian

  Military, Hard

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• When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Blow, Intelligence, Fool

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• That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens
  the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.

  Peter Drucker

  Government, Hands, Safety

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order”, p.333, Transaction Publishers

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• [T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Ocean, Eye

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping bloom.... How we waste our afflictions!... [T]hey're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year—; not only a season—: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Dark, Years

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• Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Ideas, Meditation, Mind

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.16, University of Toronto Press

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• The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Attitude, Honor, Age

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• When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Night, Thinking, Order

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.

  Joel Achenbach

  Disappointment, Thinking, Earthquakes

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• As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Done, Serious

  "Emmet Gowin: 'Everyone thought my photographs were incestuous'". Interview with Sarah Moroz, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

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• If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?

  Jeff Greenfield

  Couple, Gay, Government

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• Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

  Arthur Scargill

  Party, People, Gone

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• Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.

  James P. Hoffa

  Running, Strong, Moving

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• What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Peace, Destiny, League

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• Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

  Ernest Mandel

  Capitalist Economy, Way, Impossible

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

  Hayley Mills

  Home, Son, Balance

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• The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, ‘Here comes my food.!

  Watchman Nee

  Heart, Sight, Have Faith

  Watchman Nee (1998). “God's Keeping Power”, p.8, Living Stream Ministry

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• We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.

  Blake Ross

  Thinking, Goal, Decision

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• If you try to hit a grand slam, you’re going to strike out.

  Jon Stewart

  Trying, Slam, Ifs

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• Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Brave New World, Past, Technology

  Yanis Varoufakis (2015). “The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy”, p.43, Zed Books Ltd.

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• I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

  David Copperfield

  Friday, Believe, Night

  David Copperfield “The Works of Charles Dickens”

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• No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Following The Crowd, Crowds, Path

  Twitter post from Sep 27, 2017

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