Strikes Quotes - Page 24

• And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

  Donna Tartt

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

  Joss Stone

  Men, Years, Attractive

  "Joss Stone smokes weed most days and hasn't heard of Cheryl Cole. Any connection?". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2009.

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• If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle.

  Neal Boortz

  Fighting, Fists, Want

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• The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

  John Ortberg

  Harder, Deeper

  John Ortberg (2010). “Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)”, p.82, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring,
  surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him.
  More than delivering strikes and slashes,
  and deeper in significance than the simple outwitting of an enemy, Ninpô is the way of attaining that which we need
  while making the world a better place.
  
  The skill of the Ninja is the art of winning.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Art, Winning, Simple

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• Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

  Sun Tzu

  Doe, Void, Bypass

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• There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.

  Carson McCullers

  Children, Self, Littles

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• Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in al-Qaida. He was able to indulge in his hobbies... He was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes for release to the wider world.

  Peter Bergen

  Indulge In, Keys, Leader

  "The 'Manhunt' To Capture Osama Bin Laden". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. May 1, 2012.

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• No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

  James P. Cannon

  Victory, Impossible, Communist

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• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  Omari Hardwick

  Couple, Thinking, Skin Color

  "Omari Hardwick - The 'Kick-Ass'". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. 2010.

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• After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

  Irvin Kershner

  Care, Empires, Film

  "Irvin Kershner obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

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• There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.

  Eli Pariser

  Self, Media, Two

  "Eli Pariser: What Search Engines Are Hiding From Us". "KPBS Midday Edition" with Maureen Cavanaugh, www.kpbs.org. May 23, 2011.

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• Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.

  Katherine Dunn

  Beautiful, Mistake, Luck

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• Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Country, Cities, Population

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• I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one.

  Maynard Webb

  Running, Jobs, Believe

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.

  Hugh Masekela

  Uprising, Culture, Way

  "Hugh Masekela: 'I don't think I have the power to forgive'". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

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• Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Thorns, Harm, Cushions

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.40

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• We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Home, Practice, Abortion

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• Where two or three are met together, the prayer of one strikes fire from the soul of another; and the latter in his turn leads the way to nobler heights of devotion. And lo! as their joy increases, there is One in their midst whom they all recognize and cling to. He was there before, but it is only when their hearts begin to burn that they recognize Him; and in a true sense they may be said to bring Him there.

  James Stalker

  Prayer, Heart, Fire

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• It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, War

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• A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

  Bill Haywood

  Struggle, Revolution

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• Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

  Lew Wallace

  Best Friend, Hurt, Men

  Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ bk. 6, ch. 2 (1880)

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• The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.

  George F. Kennan

  Country, Teacher, America

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• We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.

  Jeh Johnson

  Phases, Moments, Lone Wolf

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Mind, Speech

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