Strikes Quotes - Page 33

• I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

  Tom Morello

  People, Peaceful, Progressive Society

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.

  Alice Meynell

  Clouds, Light, Shining

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.122, eBookIt.com

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• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Lightning, Contradicting, Danger

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “The Window at the White Cat”, p.225, The Floating Press

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• When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Lightning, Innocence, Sometimes

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.161, Northwestern University Press

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• Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
  And only cowards dare affront a woman.

  George Farquhar

  Sex, Women, Brave

  George Farquhar (1759). “The Constant Couple, Or, a Trip to the Jubilee: A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal at Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants”, p.65

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• any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

  Deborah Tannen

  Powerful, People, Criticism

  Deborah Tannen (1986). “That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others”, William Morrow & Co

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• As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Book, Rap, Grandmother

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• cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

  Rae Foley

  Sin, Unforgivable, Cruelty

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• Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

  Rae Foley

  Heart, Civilization, Murder

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• One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.

  Djuna Barnes

  Pain, Eye, Men

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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• The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sex, Men, Opposites

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• You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.

  Stella Benson

  Thinking, Hysteria, Movement

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• ... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Accepting, Possessiveness, Bargains

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)

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• I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that is the source of us all. When you strike out at someone else's achievement you are attacking your own share of a great gift.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Art, Creativity, Achievement

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• Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction...it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.

  Elissa Schappell

  Kings, Book, Writing

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• 20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

  Diane Glancy

  Poetry, Earth, Break

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• There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

  Jane Smiley

  Eye, Desire, Blind

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• The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Blow, Roots, Flying

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1952). “Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum”

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• Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Eye, Rays, Talent

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.46

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• Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Art, Weapons, Strike Back

  Interview with Marc Kayser, Quest, Berlin, March 2004.

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• The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the combat readiness of the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear forces, the United States would not be able to deal a crippling blow to the socialist countries. The aggressor will not be able to evade an all-crushing retaliatory strike.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  Crush, Country, Blow

  "Physics and Nuclear Arms Today" by David Hafemeister, (p. 94), 1991.

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• It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.

  Hadewijch

  Blow, Code, Written

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• Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.

  Marie Colvin

  Mother, Husband, Children

  "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second.

  Christa Wolf

  Running, War, Mean

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• Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Mother, Children, Blood

  Kaye Gibbons (1998). “On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon”, Putnam Publishing Group

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