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Quotes About Strike

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.
~ James T. Walsh
Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.
~ Unknown
But even the innocent blow of a child can be painful, possibly more so than that of an adult since its victim cannot bring himself to strike back. His only recourse, when the pain becomes unbearable, is to put himself beyond the child's reach.
~ Jim Thompson
I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.
~ Jodi Picoult
Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.
~ Jodi Picoult
The day when the elves finally go strike is the day when billions of school children cry.
~ Unknown
There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
~ Bill Engvall
You think the whole electrical system is fried?" Chuck said, "Good possibility." "That would mean fences." Chuck picked up an apple as it floated onto his foot. He went into a windup and kicked his leg and fired it into the wall. "Stee-rike one!" He turned to Teddy. "That would mean fences, yes.
~ Dennis Lehane
Rumors or no, Thomas, if the men strike, we'll see fecal gravity at work like never before. Ain't a man in this room who won't be covered in shit.
~ Dennis Lehane
Good. Now that that's settled, I should like to re-braid your hair and then strike a bargain with you," he continued, not missing a beat. He turned her onto her side and she felt his fingers smoothing the hair back from her temples, sliding along the length of the thick plait.
~ Unknown
ne feriare feri' (strike lest thou be stricken).
~ Unknown
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.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Ma conception de la grève du futur ne consiste pas à faire la grève et se laisser mourir de faim, mais de faire la grève et s'approprier la production
~ Unknown
It was during the great railroad strike of 1877 that i became interested in what is known as the 'Labor question
~ Unknown
a "strike," which means a resistance on the part of the oppressed toward the oppressor—a protest, as it were
~ Unknown
I lean against my sister's shoulder. I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice. Sure it does, Izzy tells me. But only if you're too dumb to move.
~ Jodi Picoult
Anarchism rejects authority in any form: to the principle of representation, it opposes the direct and independent action of individuals and masses: to !egalitarian and parliamentarian action, it opposes rebellion, insurrection, the general strike, the social revolution.
~ Unknown
Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
I am sure they will be very grateful." How would you know? I wanted to say. Often those men in most need hate most to be grateful, and will strike at you just to feel whole again.
~ Madeline Miller
And when a man's feelings are hurt he wants to strike at something, and Abel was in the way of his anger.
~ John Steinbeck
The anarchist who finished his meal in a Paris café and then calmly murdered a fellow diner said merely, "I shall not be striking an innocent if I strike the first bourgeois that I meet.
~ Margaret MacMillan
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.
~ Tone-Loc
The next day, Paris woke up to find its streets plastered with posters calling for a general strike.
~ Unknown