Top 100 Can Strike Quotes

#1. There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to.

Nia Long

Can Strike Quotes #15132
#2. Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.

Stefan Emunds

Can Strike Quotes #21913
#3. One should never lose hope. Homosexuality can strike any straight man at any age.

Roger Peyrefitte

Can Strike Quotes #24125
#4. My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.

John Wayne

Can Strike Quotes #44172
#5. He had a great general's ability to focus on his goals and brush aside obstacles as petty distractions. "You can abuse me, you can strike me," Rockefeller said, "so long as you let me have my own way.

Ron Chernow

Can Strike Quotes #89810
#6. My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge.

Maya Angelou

Can Strike Quotes #110941
#7. The heart of a city
Is the soul of a man
It winds like a river
Through the heart of the land
They can tear down a building
They can tear down a park
They can strike at a symbol
But they can't strike the heart

Janis Ian

Can Strike Quotes #181102
#8. The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor ... Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas.

James Agee

Can Strike Quotes #279900
#9. A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

Eric Maskin

Can Strike Quotes #501435
#10. This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightning, at any time in any place, even in a humble glover's home in a small town in Elizabethan England.

Andrea Mays

Can Strike Quotes #517151
#11. Life's so simple, thought Jill, if only you can strike the right note. All it needed was a little give-and-take. She'd often said so.

Helen Hodgman

Can Strike Quotes #535108
#12. Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

Daniel Handler

Can Strike Quotes #548573
#13. At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Albert Camus

Can Strike Quotes #562332
#14. The specter of unrequited love can strike at any time, reducing even the most fearless, independent woman to a weepy wreck

Abby McDonald

Can Strike Quotes #619991
#15. I had learned firsthand that tragedy and disappointment can strike any of us at any time.

Danielle Steel

Can Strike Quotes #633395
#16. Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.

Tess Gerritsen

Can Strike Quotes #714508
#17. All of Rommel's supplies and reinforcements come across those very straits from Italy, and land at Tunis or Bizerta. From there, Rommel can strike out east towards Egypt or west

Neal Stephenson

Can Strike Quotes #732712
#18. Impressive, most impressive, worthy lad,
Thine Obi-Wan hath taught thee well, and thou
Hast master'd all thy fears. Now, go! Release
Thine anger, for thy hate alone can strike
Me down!

Ian Doescher

Can Strike Quotes #738419
#19. There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

Damon Galgut

Can Strike Quotes #875519
#20. Seasoned killers all, thought Selmy, but it is one thing to face a foe in the pit when his coming is heralded by horns and drums and another to find a hidden killer before he can strike.

George R R Martin

Can Strike Quotes #892267
#21. 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.

George Farquhar

Can Strike Quotes #912883
#22. Beyond everything else, she loves this: how swiftly things can strike her - music, people, life - how quickly they can surprise her, all of a sudden, like a punch.

Nathan Hill

Can Strike Quotes #1026399
#23. Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Can Strike Quotes #1069164
#24. Aunt Clara doesn't take her eyes off her toast. Her delicate jet earrings tremble as her knife scratches at the toast like a cat's paw, buttering every inch. Strange how even the most mundane habits of dislikable people can strike such harsh chords. I even hate the way Aunt butters.

Adele Griffin

Can Strike Quotes #1136537
#25. If you're too good too much of the time, people start to forget about you. You're not a problem, so people can strike you off their list of things to worry about.

Lev Grossman

Can Strike Quotes #1247629
#26. Relationships only get to exist as long as they keep breathing in the air of mutual forgiveness, and he and I have found an uncommon grace. Grace can strike when you are in great pain and light you with the greatest hope. I

Ann Voskamp

Can Strike Quotes #1260976
#27. The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Can Strike Quotes #1315188
#28. I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

Abraham Lincoln

Can Strike Quotes #1328685
#29. He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Can Strike Quotes #1371294
#30. Only functioning as a whole brain, IT can strike the right balance between stability and agility; creativity and standardization; innovation and risk intelligence.

Pearl Zhu

Can Strike Quotes #1380840
#31. We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.

Philip Hammond

Can Strike Quotes #1405670
#32. There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other ... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!

Isaac Hayes

Can Strike Quotes #1418754
#33. The notion of there being something greater than humanity can strike fear in the bravest of soldiers and cradle courage in the palm of a child's hand.

Katlyn Charlesworth

Can Strike Quotes #1431983
#34. The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

Can Strike Quotes #1544476
#35. Definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies, across the softest of snows.

Frank Delaney

Can Strike Quotes #1558652
#36. A master welder can strike an arc blindfolded, with one hand, upside down, in a snowstorm. Okay,

Steven Robert Farnsworth

Can Strike Quotes #1580469
#37. 1824: "Let everyone in love come and see. I want to break Venus's ribs with clubs and cripple the goddess's loins. If she can strike through my soft chest, then why can't I smash her head with a club?

Leland Gregory

Can Strike Quotes #1605748
#38. And it is a great fact of history that the most mediocre and well-meaning imbeciles can strike down the mighty with surprising effectiveness when there is such a huge disparity of souls.

Anne Rice

Can Strike Quotes #1705161
#39. A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.

Miriam Toews

Can Strike Quotes #1749999
#40. You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

Albert Camus

Can Strike Quotes #1794038
#41. And 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.

Abraham Lincoln

Can Strike Quotes #1836016
#42. Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.

Gottfried Helnwein

Can Strike Quotes #1857766
#43. Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.

Eli Manning

Can Strike Quotes #66702
#44. AT&T Park, chalk it up. This is a great pitcher's park, great weather. It's a great place to pitch. It's all positive and no negative. You can go out and challenge guys. I've got the confidence to attack the strike zone and not nibble so much.

Tim Hudson

Can Strike Quotes #74185
#45. Don't go any farther, Miss Marina," warned Stanley, a half-grin on his face. " 'Tempt ye not the dragon's wrath when his claws are yet to retreat.' Dragon claws ya just can't mess with.

Kenzie Kovacs-Szabo

Can Strike Quotes #106940
#46. America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.

Bill Maher

Can Strike Quotes #116113
#47. To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Dennis Prager

Can Strike Quotes #123112
#48. Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

Mary MacLane

Can Strike Quotes #138461
#49. It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Simone Weil

Can Strike Quotes #160111
#50. Mental tranquility, or calmness, is a very important source of happiness. An external enemy, no matter how powerful, cannot strike directly at our mental calmness, because calmness is formless. Our happiness or joy can only be destroyed by our own anger. The real enemy of joy is anger.

Dalai Lama XIV

Can Strike Quotes #196494
#51. Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

N. Scott Momaday

Can Strike Quotes #208022
#52. Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.

Peter Beinart

Can Strike Quotes #271710
#53. You can't judge a man by watching him live ... I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.

Sterling W. Sill

Can Strike Quotes #283004
#54. Just stories? Stories can build up an empire, or strike down a people. You can spell the most powerful spell, ease a friend's hurt, or break an enemy. Stories make you believe.

Tobias S. Buckell

Can Strike Quotes #347294
#55. Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Helen Keller

Can Strike Quotes #348051
#56. Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

Laura Esquivel

Can Strike Quotes #350899
#57. If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time for the Christians in this country to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. A Christian recruiting strike will compel the Army to think seriously about what it is doing.

Paul Weyrich

Can Strike Quotes #363349
#58. Can I ask who you are, sir?"
"Yeah, I expect so," said Strike, walking past him and ringing the doorbell. Anstis's dinner invitation notwithstanding, he was not feeling sympathetic to the police just now. "Should be just about within your capabilities.

Robert Galbraith

Can Strike Quotes #366462
#59. You strike me as a man who will only believe in what he can see or touch. (Callie)
Exactly. (Sin)
But you know, sometimes it's what you don't see that has the most power. (Callie)

Kinley MacGregor

Can Strike Quotes #383549
#60. And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that woman would make and what woman have to teach men, and only when men can be taught will they be allowed to run free among woman again

Anne Rice

Can Strike Quotes #389566
#61. Even five minute meaningful conversations with other people not only fuel us in the moment but also build up a reserve of social capital so that when hard times strike, we can draw down on that bank account.

Michelle Gielan

Can Strike Quotes #399924
#62. Men can beat each other to a pulp and still walk away friends. With a woman, once an enemy, always an enemy. Women will sit like a spider, for years, waiting for the chance to strike. They never forget and seldom forgive.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Can Strike Quotes #403968
#63. The simple approach is that if I stay aggressive, I'll hit less often with two strikes in the count. I've been aggressive, but I've missed pitches. If I can put them in play earlier in the count, I eliminate the two-strike approach.

Curtis Granderson

Can Strike Quotes #433271
#64. And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

Roger Wicker

Can Strike Quotes #433990
#65. It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.

Anatoly Karpov

Can Strike Quotes #447341
#66. Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more than they do. It is difficult to ascertain their motives; it can be simple envy which consumes many men, or it can be economic ignorance.

Hans F. Sennholz

Can Strike Quotes #458725
#67. There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

Edward Hirsch

Can Strike Quotes #467805
#68. Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

Sam Phillips

Can Strike Quotes #488924
#69. You can't just wait around for inspiration to strike - you have to aggressively pursue it by asking probing questions and mining your environment for the raw materials of brilliance.

Todd Henry

Can Strike Quotes #508764
#70. I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those who would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

Malalai Joya

Can Strike Quotes #539295
#71. It's tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It's no fun. It's embarrassing. But there really isn't anything I can do. It's just a part of my game.

Jim Thome

Can Strike Quotes #545384
#72. Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi

William Shakespeare

Can Strike Quotes #547120
#73. Love, hatred, you have only to choose; they all sleep under the same roof; you can double your existence, caress with one hand and strike with the other.

Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Can Strike Quotes #560854
#74. Trust means how to strike the right balance upon what IT can give up control, and what IT needs to control.

Pearl Zhu

Can Strike Quotes #561505
#75. Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well as faith? That asking questions may be a disease, as well as proclaiming doctrines? You talk of religious mania! Is there no such thing as irreligious mania?

G.K. Chesterton

Can Strike Quotes #566839
#76. You're like everyone else, Strike; you want your civil liberties when you've told the missus you're at the office and you're at a lap-dancing club, but you want twenty-four-hour surveillance on your house when someone's trying to force your bathroom window open. Can't have it both ways.

Robert Galbraith

Can Strike Quotes #575713
#77. Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

George Ellery Hale

Can Strike Quotes #579545
#78. I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me.

Jim Thome

Can Strike Quotes #580205
#79. In certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

Herman Melville

Can Strike Quotes #600843
#80. Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally.

Tony La Russa

Can Strike Quotes #611311
#81. Everything can change, fluctuate, go into reverse. They strike without much warning, it any at all. It is the curse of the human mind, convincing us that we live in a bubble safe from change.

Leigh Hershkovich

Can Strike Quotes #614244
#82. Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?

Ann Burton

Can Strike Quotes #622141
#83. Somebody", "somebody" is always what everyone's thinking. Acting like there's nothing you can do yourself is the easy approach. But there's always "somebody" who comes forward. Time went by in the world. I wanted to be that "somebody." I'm sure, right now that "somebody" is "you and me.

Strike Tanaka

Can Strike Quotes #628044
#84. Hatred can either strike us dead, like lightning, or illuminate us. It shocks us into seeing what is hidden in the landscape. Hatred can be confined to reason, but kept from the heart.

Patricia Storace

Can Strike Quotes #657264
#85. Strike the rock and the water will flow; don't wait to brag about why you alone can hit the rock for water to flow; just go and do it because the world is thirsty! Your potentials are in put in you by God because he knows there is a need to be fulfilled; awaken it and present it to us!

Israelmore Ayivor

Can Strike Quotes #671808
#86. If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

John Bates Clark

Can Strike Quotes #687680
#87. It's who I am. I can't just pretend to be some normal kid. That won't work either. They'll never leave me alone. But here's what I know: a block is a strike, and the more an adversary thinks he has succeeded, the more devastating the strike will be.

Jacques Antoine

Can Strike Quotes #705953
#88. Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

Ruben Hinojosa

Can Strike Quotes #720100
#89. A thousand sweet words can never disguise the rattle of a viper about to strike.

Chanda Hahn

Can Strike Quotes #720398
#90. I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length of time, and that is my self-knowledge. I can watch myself and my actions, just like an outsider.

Francine Prose

Can Strike Quotes #725229
#91. If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.

Stella McCartney

Can Strike Quotes #768524
#92. When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead. When you can calm yourself down, thinking about the dilemma that is causing you pain will bring you to a higher level and enlighten you, leading to progress.

Ray Dalio

Can Strike Quotes #782817
#93. A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

Walter Lippmann

Can Strike Quotes #786963
#94. A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

Jimmy Cannon

Can Strike Quotes #826371
#95. 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.

Eric Davis

Can Strike Quotes #827090
#96. If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.

Kevin Keck

Can Strike Quotes #833077
#97. The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike.

Daniel Hannan

Can Strike Quotes #835668
#98. I've been thinking a lot about what Hobie said: about those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.

Donna Tartt

Can Strike Quotes #844188
#99. There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

Joseph Joubert

Can Strike Quotes #880844
#100. Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!

Steve Irwin

Can Strike Quotes #911616

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