Strikes Quotes - Page 35

• Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

  Ann Burton

  Footballer

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• Enemies strike at weak points.

  Chanakya

  Political, Enemy, Weak Points

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• God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Focus, Political

  "Road Map in the Back Seat?" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 27, 2003.

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• The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen.

  Edward Gibbon

  Views, Hands, Years

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.190, Wordsworth Editions

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• When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Terrorism, Natural, Response

  "Bound by sorrows" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

  Sophocles

  Fool, Action, Accused

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.60, Penguin

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• You know, you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and headteachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.

  Michael Gove

  Teacher, Believe, Thinking

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• However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

  Joe Slovo

  Enemy, Resistance, Violence

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• The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.

  Frank Rich

  House, Three, Defense

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• These missiles [Cruise and Pershing II] represent a new generation of missiles whose deployment will help give NATO first-strike capability. With this first-strike strategy, the West believes it could attack Russian military installations with such effectiveness that serious retaliation would be impossible.

  Petra Kelly

  Peace, Military, War

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• One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Fall, Loss

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. You think it isn’t true? The three-strike rule is to break down a black man.

  Snoop Dogg

  Taken, Men, People

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.

  Howard Zinn

  Direct Action, Government, Asking

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

  George Herbert

  Hammers, Poor Richard, Stills

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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• You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.162

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• You never know, lightning could strike.

  William Parrish

  Lightning, Knows

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• A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

  Katherine Boo

  World, Way, Inevitable

  "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiration, Writing, Clock

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• Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
  The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
  Drives Night along with them from Heav'n,
  and strikes
  The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light

  Omar Khayyam

  Stars, Night, Light

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.119, University of Virginia Press

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• The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.

  Pete Carroll

  Exercise, Helping, Persons

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• What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Differences, Lines, Ingredients

  "Andrew Lloyd Webber: 'My greatest regret'". Interview with Charles Spencer, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 26, 2013.

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• You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

  Joe Torre

  Thinking, League, Stuff

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• When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

  Ariel Gore

  Skills, Challenges, Balance

  Ariel Gore (2010). “Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness”, p.123, Macmillan

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• You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God's love to you! Do not argue, 'I cannot love God! I have striven to my uttermost to do so, but have failed in all my endeavors, until in despair I have abandoned the thought and relinquished the attempt.' Be it so- no effort of your own can strike a spark of love to God from your heart. Nor does God demand the task at your hands. All that He requires of you is faith in His love, as embodied and expressed in Jesus Christ to poor sinners.

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

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• The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Men, Law, Ideas

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