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Quotes About Strike

Strax slammed his fist into the open palm of his other hand. 'At last,' he pronounced. 'We strike for the greater glory of the Sontaran Empire. Sontar-Ha!' His brow furrowed slightly as he saw the others' expressions. 'That is. For the greater glory of Paternoster Row, of course. Pater-Nos-Ta !
~ Justin Richards
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
Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.
~ Frank Rich
May I be awoken by the thunder of Zeus & touched by his lighting. It only need strike once. Once is enough to ignite the soul with purpose.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
What "arms" could the people keep and bear? According to Webster, "arms" are "weapons of offense, or armor for defense and protection of the body."22 Citing Blackstone's Commentaries, Webster noted: "In law, arms are any thing which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
Clinton himself seemed to lean in both directions. If anything, by his actions and decisions the president seemed to favor lethal force against bin Laden and al-Zawahiri if he could find a way to make an immaculate strike.
~ Steve Coll
Such forced compromises with the spirit of the times, though quite banal, are actually inevitable unless we are ready to ask everyone who doesn't like our century to join in a general strike.
~ Milan Kundera
The news that they have nothing to fear is guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of innocents everywhere.
~ Terry Pratchett
I love the liver kick.
~ Luke Rockhold
Janine smiles. "Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Hammer. Nail. Direct hit.
~ Gail Giles
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
~ Bruce Lee
It launched one worker, Eugene Debs, into a lifetime of activism for labor unions and socialism. Debs was arrested for supporting the strike. Two years later he wrote: The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis for civilization. The time has come to regenerate [renew] society—we are on the eve of a universal change. Like
~ Howard Zinn
As a parent you cannot support your child striking from school.
~ Svante Thunberg
I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.
~ Michael Gove
You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.
~ Dennis Ross
Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.
~ Arthur Scargill
During the strike, the KKK would come into the Labor Temple with guns, and break up meetings. Very frequently, they were police in hoods. Though they were called the Citizens' Committee, everybody would call them Los Cuckoo Klan. (Laughs.) The picket lines would hold hands, and the KKK would beat them and cart them off.
~ Studs Terkel
Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.
~ Naomi Novik
The lightning took away the world again, that single terrible moment of blind white silence everywhere around me, and then it jumped away from me roaring with thunder and struck the massive heart-tree, a shattering blow down the middle.
~ Naomi Novik
I strike fear into you because I am a man? It isn't funny. I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.
~ Catherine Anderson
We should remember that it's easier to destroy than to build, and it's really easy to destroy something you have no stake in. It was the 10 percent cut in wages that precipitated The Strike. The Bosses reduced their workers' stake in their operations below the minimum necessary for survival, while denying them any legal recourse. That was when the real Atlas shrugged. 
~ Cecelia Holland
Thunder Rolls bowling alley
~ Kathleen Bacus
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
~ Calvin Coolidge