Strike Quotes

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark.

Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Make the choice adventurous stranger, strike the bell and bide the danger or wonder 'till it drives you mad what would have happened if you had.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgment, and his self-respect, and he'll resent your triumph. That will make him strike back, but it will never make him want to change his mind. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

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.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

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.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government.

I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and therefore when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which, I hope, will keep it great.

I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do;

it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

Cancer is a curious thing...Nobody knows what the cause is,Though some pretend they do;It's like some hidden assassin,Waiting to strike at you.Childless women get it,And men when they retire.It

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Many men fail because they quit too soon.

They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said Box about: twill come to my father anon.

On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself. To the executioner: Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.