Quotes with strike

  • One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
  • When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
  • Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
  • The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
  • Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
  • There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
  • If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
  • The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
  • And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.
  • There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
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  • Sun Tzu The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Fisher Ames A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
    Fisher Ames
    American politician (1758 - 1808)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Eric Hoffer Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Mark Twain As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Camus At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Alexander Pope Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bill Kristol Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Arthur Scargill Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Henry Clay Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
    Henry Clay
    American lawyer, planter, and statesman (1777 - 1852)
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  • Barry Cornwall Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Babe Ruth Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Queen Victoria For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Edwin Markham For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • William Shakespeare He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bruce Sutter I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Horace I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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