Strikes Quotes - Page 29

• This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Moving, Cynical

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• I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

  Will Cuppy

  Oil, Helping, Help Me

  Will Cuppy (1929). “How to be a Hermit: Or, A Bachelor Keeps House”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.

  Jessica Alba

  Careers, Iron, Choices

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• Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

  Leonid Andreyev

  Love, Men, Devil

  Leonid Andreyev (1922). “He who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts”

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• The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Laughing, Secret, Compunction

  "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 1983.

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• When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Men, Understanding

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.89

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• As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.

  William James

  Views, Bird, Different

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

  Daniel Boone

  Lightning, Doe

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• Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.

  George Sand

  Lying, Kissing, Hands

  Letter (17 June 1837) in "The Intimate Journal of George Sand" translated and edited by Marie Jenney Howe, 1929.

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• A naturall foole that could never learn by heart the order of numerall words, as one , two , and three , may observe every stroak of the Clock, and nod to it, or say one, one, one; but can never know what houre it strikes.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Heart, Order, Two

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.62, Xist Publishing

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• The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.

  Stephen Spender

  Passion, Sight, Air

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.189, Faber & Faber

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• There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right.

  William Blackstone

  Exercise, Men, Imagination

  William Blackstone (2016). “The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the Rights of Things”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.

  Joni Mitchell

  Honesty, Order, Light

  "Joni Mitchell: Lament for the Lady of the Canyon" by James Hughes, www.smh.com.au. July 10, 2015.

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• Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail,
  So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Hands, Ruins, Failing

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

  John Philpot Curran

  Blow, Reason, Wailing

  ?1773 'Let Us Be Merry Before We Go'.

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• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.

  Harry Hershfield

  Lightning, Contradicting

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• As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.

  Michael Chabon

  Sacrifice, Self, Expression

  Unpublished Letter of Complaint to The New York Review of Books,

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• Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes , in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining.

  Thomas Frank

  Blow, Order, Vote

  Thomas Frank (2007). “What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as an artist. If I can keep moving forward and strike some form of balance between them two, then I'm going to feel content.

  Jack O'Connell

  Jobs, Moving, Artist

  Source: collider.com

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• The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal.

  Michael Foot

  Believe, People, Coal

  Michael Foot's speech at the House of Commons, 1974.

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• I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.

  Michael Lewis

  Brother, Jobs, Book

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell us things about the world that are not only to our real advantage, but will never be revealed by science.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Real, World, Might

  Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.316, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mother, Country, Real

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• In order to preserve a balance, while we aren't planning to build a missile defence of our own, as it's very expensive and its efficiency is not quite clear yet, we have to develop offensive strike systems. They [U.S.] should give us all the information about the missile defence, and we will be ready then to provide some information about offensive weapons.

  Vladimir Putin

  Order, Giving, Balance

  "Putin Says Russia Will Build Weapons to Offset Planned US Missile Defences". Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2009.

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• Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Doe, Fiction, Youth

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.124, Macmillan

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