Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out. — Steve Martin 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
A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off. — Kevin Keegan 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
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
Strike the ignorants with the hammer of knowledge, wherever and whenever you see them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
Any strike will be as direct support to Al-Qaeda offshoot that's called Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
US government policies are continuing to do exactly the same thing [produce terrorism]. Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in… — Washington Irving 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
Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning. — Herman Melville 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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
NOW, MY BRETHREN!" Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it from the smoke image or from… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines. — Clayton Snyder Copy Share Image
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
![“US government policies are continuing to do exactly the same thing [produce terrorism]. Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But of course it is just easier to…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/641/noam-chomsky-42_attacking_us-government-policies-are-continuing-to_926624.jpg)
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