Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
This is a derivative, if you will, of Cloward-Piven [theory]. "[Stephen] Lerner's plan is to organize a mass, coordinated 'strike' on mortgage,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Sometimes local, state and federal laws so clearly run afoul of the Constitution that the court must step in and strike them… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Well, my mother, she made me apply for a school where I was supposed to learn how to type. She said, well,… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike… — Tim Gane Copy Share Image
I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black,… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the… — Jeffrey St. Clair Copy Share Image
People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought,… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild. — Bruce Sutter Copy Share Image
It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive. — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my… — Leigh Brackett Copy Share Image
Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all. — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition. — Gary Coleman Copy Share Image
Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image