Strikes Quotes

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

— Gillian Jacobs

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

— Francois Rabelais

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can throw strikes any time.

— Yu Darvish

Firefighters don't go on strike.

— Denis Leary

“A dog barks, but a lion strikes.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Strike while the iron is hot.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

— Graham Greene

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“One thunderbolt strikes root through everything”

— Heraclitus

“Going forward, it would be “three strikes, you’re out.”

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

— Anonymous

Dad, Thanks for being my biggest fan, even when I strike-out.

— John Walter Bratton

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

— Regina Brett

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

— John Paul Jones

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely…

— Alex Faickney Osborn

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.

— Orlando Hernandez

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an…

— Sun Tzu

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot.

— Richard Sharp

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts…

— James A. Garfield

I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill…

— Tom Monaghan

Welcome it as part of a process... you just can't avoid it... if you go to bat enough times, you are going…

— Peter Guber

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime…

— Abraham Lincoln

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and…

— Cesar Chavez

There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being…

— Bill Engvall

God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein],…

— George W. Bush

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the…

— E. Stanley Jones

The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing…

— Marilynne Robinson

It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent…

— Sandy Alderson

I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which…

— Ben Watt

As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my…

— Robert Creeley

Shut up, sit down, and read. (Tory) Please? (Acheron) You need something? (Tory) You to be polite to me, Ms. I Own…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps…

— Edward Said

It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass…

— Vincent Van Gogh

There is no limit to childishness, if a person starts attacking the other one, they just strike back. Your weak point? Secret?…

— Sun Yang

You don't want me to feel obligated? Well, I'm sorry, Lily. I am here because I feel obligated." He brought her hand…

— Tessa Dare

But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;…

— Francis Bacon