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Tag Name "Strikes" (981)

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There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
William Blackstone
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
Alexander Pope
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
Alexander Pope
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
William Butler Yeats
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People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
Haruki Murakami
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You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . .
Alex Flinn
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As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.
Alex Faickney Osborn
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I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.
Isaac Asimov
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It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.
William Gibson
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If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.
Homer
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Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike them first.
David Brooks
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Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.
William Harvey
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The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
William Hazlitt
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
William Hazlitt
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A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
William Howard Taft
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I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.
William J. Clinton
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The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.
William James
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike we create anger where we never meant harm and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I want my careless song to strike no minor key no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
Margaret Walker
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You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.
Albert Camus
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What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
William Rounseville Alger
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