Strikes Quotes - Page 40

• Even five minute meaningful conversations with other people not only fuel us in the moment but also build up a reserve of social capital so that when hard times strike, we can draw down on that bank account.

  Michelle Gielan

  Meaningful, Hard Times, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

  Steve Martin

  Humble, Opportunity, Missing

  "Steve Martin Interview - The Pink Panther 2". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. February 4, 2009.

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• I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Vegetables, Oil

  "Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner (Extended Interview)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March 2009.

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• It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And it was a magic which could only strike spark about that time. A few years earlier, from the point of view of aircraft alone, it would have been impossible to reach these places; a few later, and there will be no such isolation.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Views, Years, Magic

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• I've never been starstruck but I may have wanted to strike a star once or twice.

  Grumpy Cat

  Stars, May, Wanted

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• I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.

  Steve Martin

  Fun, Sound, Done

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• A good friend of mine took me out and had me hit off a tee. He made me understand what was my strike zone and - with my speed - the importance of making contact. So I give him a lot of credit for changing my game and making me the player I became. He showed me how to work on me and my game, and not worry about patterning myself after someone else and focusing on what they were capable of doing rather than what I was capable of doing.

  Rickey Henderson

  Good Friend, Player, Games

  "AN Interviews Rickey Henderson". Interview with Donald Marquez, www.athleticsnation.com. May 7, 2012.

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• When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Religious, Strong

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• Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

  Robin Day

  Television, Emotion, Intellect

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• Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Cracks, Nuisance

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Real, Thinking, Lame

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I find grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in effect this: Panic strikes like a storm and calamity comes like a whirlwind to those who hate knowledge and ignore their God.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Brother, Hate, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.264, Best Books on

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• I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

  Stephen King

  Inspiration, Chords, Subconscious

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Forgiveness, War, Eye

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.702, Delphi Classics

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• I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Pages, Superficial

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, Trying, Violence

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.

  Chuck Liddell

  Hands, Trying, Routes

  "Chuck Liddell UFC 115 Interview". Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com. June 10, 2010.

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• What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.

  Dacia Maraini

  Christian, Animal, Rights

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• My rule of thumb is to strike a balance by sticking to the classics and playing with color, texture, and print to give them a modern update. On any given day, I keep it simple with jeans or chinos and a comfortable dress shirt.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Simple, Color, Jeans

  "Hilfiger vs Nadal". VANITY FAIR Interview, www.vanityfair.com. September 22, 2016.

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• I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a Word document and start typing until I get it all out. I've got tons of notes that I never throw out. You never know when a story will strike!

  Franny Armstrong

  Vacation, Stories, Computer

  Source: romancing-the-book.com

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• I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind.

  James C. Scott

  Discipline, Bored, Political

  Source: www.gastronomica.org

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• I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, House

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.177, Crown Archetype

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• I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

  Cate Marvin

  Argument, Poetic, Realism

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.

  Clint Howard

  Sports, Baseball, Jobs

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood of your brother." The killing was done to another human being, a child of God like you, breaking that sacred bond of common humanity.

  Allan Boesak

  Brother, Children, Blood

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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