Strikes Quotes

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.