Quotes About Strikes

Decked in the spoils you stripped from one I loved—escape my clutches? Never— Pallas strikes this blow, Pallas sacrifices you now, makes you pay the price with your own guilty blood!

As Hoffa put it, "Nobody can describe the sit-down strikes, the riots, the fights that took place in the state of Michigan, particularly here in Detroit, unless they were a part of it." And on another occasion he said, "My scalp was laid open sufficiently wide to require stitches no less than six times during the first year I was business agent of Local 299. I was beaten up by cops or strikebreakers at least two dozen times that year." And

I love the thunder rumbling, crashing, Peal after peal along the skies; While from the clouds the lightning flashing In deathful splendour, strikes, destroys.

Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation - that is the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on victim, especially when he strikes back.

White Motor Company's plant struck for higher wages and a union shop, Robert F. Black, then president of the company

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.

Government and unions have negotiated a minimum service to be maintained during strikes.

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

waiting for our lives to converge onto the precise fault line at which our past could be cleaved from our future with three soft strikes of the bright brass knocker.

As usual sparring goes: men represent strikes, touch each other, but do not tend to cause real damage to the partner.

AGAMEMNON. Ay, it is Agamemnon, 'tis thy King That wakes thee; his the voice that strikes thine ear.

We are not a nation of strikes and inaction. We will not be preached at by militant unionists with a crap whippet and a chip on each shoulder.

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

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

Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.

Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.

I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose.

Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive U.S. foreign policy and intelligence should be.

I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.

Ronaldinho is very complete. He's a good header of the ball, he strikes it well with both feet, he dribbles, he scores.

The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.

Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.