Strike Quotes

The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.

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

We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.

I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.

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

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

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.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

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

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

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

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

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

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.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.