Best Strikes Quotations
1230 Strikes quotes by 984 unique authors
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
— Seneca the Younger
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The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
— Horace
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things…
— Francis Bacon
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the…
— David Hume
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A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites…
— William O. Douglas
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It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the…
— Robert Breault
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It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and…
— Albert Einstein
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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then…
— Francis Bacon
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Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims…
— John Owen
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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would…
— Abraham Lincoln
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What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be…
— Albert Schweitzer
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One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection,…
— Jacques Monod
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Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not…
— John F. Kerry
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It makes no sense for us to consider going back there and getting involved in what truly is a religious civil war. What real difference…
— Tulsi Gabbard
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It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States…
— Tulsi Gabbard
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I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military involvement needs to…
— Janice Hahn
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A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important…
— Nolan Ryan
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It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.
— Bob Hope
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We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.
— John P. Kotter
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There is no limit to childishness, if a person starts attacking the other one, they just strike back. Your weak point? Secret? They won't avoid…
— Unknown Author
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