Strikes Quotes · Page 39

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

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

— Herodotus

Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you…

— Kim Harrison

I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to…

— Jerry Bridges

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out,…

— Willie Stargell

I have never been one to run when tragedy strikes.

— Jenna Morasca

But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I…

— Angus Young

It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me…

— Robert L. Devaney

Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike…

— John Eliot

Creativity arises from a constant churn of ideas, and one of the easiest ways to encourage that fertile froth is to keep…

— Gretchen Rubin

There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t…

— David Rakoff

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

— Winston Churchill

If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which,…

— Christopher Paolini

Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you.

— Saddam Hussein

I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to…

— Chris Avellone

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light…

— Joni Mitchell

Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said…

— Peter De Vries

[The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but…

— Danny Glover

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

— Tony Abbott

But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.

— Violeta Chamorro

Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when…

— Frederick Lenz

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and…

— Joe Bob Briggs

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

— Andy Rooney

The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every…

— Robert Toombs