strike quotes

• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/strike/tears/eyes]
• The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. (Arthur James Balfour) [strike/class/more]
• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [music/strike/tears/form]
• At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. (Albert Camus) [feeling/strike/face]
• Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [more/people/strike]
• Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. (Henry Clay) [character/strike]
• We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. (Denis Diderot) [feeling/memory/strike]
• Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [achievements/strike/people]
• If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [people/strike]
• When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses. (Georg Hegel) [night/strike/habit/feeling]
• Animals often strike us as passionate machines. (Eric Hoffer) [animals/strike]
• I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head. ( Horace) [strike]
• Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. (Samuel Johnson) [think/strike]
• Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. (John Keats) [poetry/surprise/strike/thoughts]
• Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. (H. L. Mencken) [strike/willpower/truth]
• Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. (Alexander Pope) [eyes/strike]
• When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. (Franklin Roosevelt) [strike]
• We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot. (Tom Sharp) [strike/strike]
• If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. (George Bernard Shaw) [strike/child/take/care]
• As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out. (Mark Twain) [strike]
• “Don't just stand there let's get to it. Strike a pose, there's nothing to it. ( Madonna) [strike]
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. (Ben Affleck) [strike]
• “Unless it's a down-and-dirty little film ... you have to strike that balance between having it rooted and having the people not fall out of it,” (Willem Dafoe) [film/strike/balance/people]
• “With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.” (Bette Davis) [newspaper/strike]
• “We will always strike first. We will always deliver the first blow.” (Adolf Hitler) [willpower/strike/willpower]
• “I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.” (Deidre Hall) [strike/people]
• How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank. (Christopher Meloni) [strike]
• I find the Sox haters lame, and once it goes beyond good-natured fun, have no use for it. Cubs fans that hate on the Sox strike me as insecure... now, hating on the Cardinals, that is an entirely different business! (Billy Corgan) [find/strike/business]
• “I think I've always been good so God wouldn't strike me dead.” (Heather Locklear) [think/god/strike]
• Remember the match girls who won their strike and formed a union; take courage from the gas stokers who only a few weeks ago won the eight hour day. (John Burns) [remember/girls/strike/take]
• What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America. (Louis Farrakhan) [president/strike/war/europe]

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