Strike Quotes

848 Strike quotes by 693 unique authors

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing… — Hunter S. Thompson
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if… — Ursula K. Le Guin
And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath… — Virginia Woolf
It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through… — Vincent Van Gogh
Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone… — Adam Johnson
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until… — Napoleon Hill
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike — Christopher Marlowe
I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas. — Cassandra Clare
I want you to say dreadfully mad, funny things and make up songs and be--' The Will I fell in love with, she almost said.… — Cassandra Clare
I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I… — Iain Banks
Men can beat each other to a pulp and still walk away friends. With a woman, once an enemy, always an enemy. Women will sit… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a… — Henry Miller
That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean… — Thomas Carlyle
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead. — Michel de Montaigne
There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting… — J. G. Holland
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike. — Arthur Ashe
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most… — Howard Zinn
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.… — Frederick Douglass
Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth. — Walter Raleigh
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But… — Mother Jones
Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal lap… — Unknown Author
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no,… — Jeremiah Wright
. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the… — Frederick Buechner
You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you… — Eugene V. Debs
The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil. — John D. Rockefeller

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