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Trump strikes me as the kind of guy that\'s on all the time. He\'s got a very forceful persona.

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one\'s whole life.

The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.

The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. The warning that one would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don\'t count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it. That is where success is possible to every man.

It\'s amazing when tragedy strikes, how strong you find that you are, and I\'d seen other people go through horrible things. And I just thought, \"Wow, I would be a complete mess,\" and then suddenly when it happens, you realize you had more strength than you knew and it helps you to get through.

If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.

Hark, now strikes on my ear the trampling of swift-footed coursers\' [said moments before his death.

I mean the reason the sit-down strikes struck such fear in the hearts of management was that they knew that a sit-down strike was just one step short of taking over the factory.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

I have already said that I find the coalition air strikes to be insufficient. A ground intervention will be necessary to overcome Daesh.

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.

We also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to actually take out ISIS in Raqqa, end their claim of being a Caliphate.

Sadness is inevitable, the poet said, because war is blind, like those who start it. She strikes indiscriminately. And when death comes, a person mourns his losses. Only sadness knows the price of death and makes you dream of final victory.

It\'s the secrecy surrounding drone strikes that\'s most troubling. . . We don\'t know the targeting criteria, or whether the rules for CIA and military drone strikes differ; we don\'t know the details of the internal process through which targets are vetted; we don\'t know the chain of command, or the details of congressional oversight. The United States does not release the names of those killed, or the location or number of strikes, making it impossible to know whether those killed were legitimately viewed as combatants or not. We also don\'t know the cost of the secret war: How much money has been spent on drone strikes? What\'s the budget for the related targeting and intelligence infrastructures? How is the government assessing the costs and benefits of counterterrorism drone strikes? That\'s a lot of secrecy for a targeted killing program that has reportedly caused the deaths of several thousand people.

We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that \'just happen\' every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can\'t generalize from them, since they are radically discontinuous with ordinary life. But wars and atrocities do not \'just happen\': societies and individuals slide into them, little by little, one tiny decision or omission at a time.

Some white people are privileged, some aren\'t. Some black people are, some aren\'t. It\'s strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it\'s making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.

It strikes me that, speaking in Parliament before the European Council, members of Sinn Fein remained silent about the large-scale buildup of Russian military forces on the border with Ukraine.

It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.

The thing about the banjo,\' says Martin, \'is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people.

Swing at the strikes.

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm.

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

The air strikes are important [to fight ISIS], but we need to have an air force capable of it. And because of the budget cuts we are facing in this country, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force we have ever had. We have to reverse those cuts, in addition to the cuts to our Navy and in addition to the cuts to our Army, as well.

Let me begin by saying that we have to understand who ISIS is. ISIS is a radical Sunni group. They cannot just be defeated through air strikes. Air strikes are a key component of defeating them, but they must be defeated on the ground by a ground force. And that ground force must be primarily made up of Sunni Arabs themselves, Sunni Arabs that reject them ideologically and confront them militarily.

... Now I am going to speak a word and this is the word and here's the word. When the clock strikes 2.08. There are eight songs in the Bible. Noah started the world over with eight people. On the eighth day the Bible says Jesus appeared. Thomas because was not a believer but on the eighth day he showed up and Thomas was a believer. Actually Jesus was resurrected on the eighth day. ...

So what strikes me most about the Heartland Conference is that I am with people that are in love with weather, climate, and their country, and many of them have loved these longer and stronger than I have.