... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does… — Rumi Copy Share Image
What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
Allowing the fly to sink to the fish's level, the angler makes a retrieve. The fly comes directly at the fish, which… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've learned, and I think we've all learned, is that we are not going to get the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God… — Trevor Treharne Copy Share Image
Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in… — Ubaldo Jimenez Copy Share Image
Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw… — Johan Santana Copy Share Image
To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is… — James Roby Copy Share Image
Strike the ignorants with the hammer of knowledge, wherever and whenever you see them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off. — Kevin Keegan Copy Share Image
If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore. — Curtis Sliwa Copy Share Image
Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
You realize how many times lightning has to strike in order for you to be sitting here? — Mike Matusow Copy Share Image
