Strikes Quotes
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Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.
Sarah MacLean
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Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
Tom Stoppard
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Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.
Eudora Welty
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Andy Rooney
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It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
Nicholas Mosley
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There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
William Cartwright
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You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.
Stella Benson
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
Abraham Lincoln
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Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
Antonio Machado
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Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
William Shatner
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It's about something that strikes you as funny but I do it with a Christian world view: why we think the way we do based on God's plan. I lift up my God and my country and I resist political correctness.
Brad Stine
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To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
William Ellery Channing
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My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.
Willie Lanier
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Stay open, who knows, lightning could strike.
William Parrish
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The period of strikes reflected well on Costa Rica because it showed how we can resolve these disputes peacefully and democratically.
Carlos Alvarado
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I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.
Cate Marvin
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Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.
Rose Schneiderman
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You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.
Mike Schmidt
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Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.
Tim Gane
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It cost Andrei Dmitrievich 10 months of complete isolation and two hunger strikes over two months, which had a terrible effect on his health. The effects are still felt to this day.
Yelena Bonner
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Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.
Kaye Gibbons
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Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll take the hits as they come.
Garrett Atkins
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You never know, lightning could strike.
William Parrish
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
Emily Bronte