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Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back. — Gottfried Helnwein

Guys don't want to get to two strikes, so you have to make quality pitches early in the count, try to get them to put the ball in play. — Stephen Strasburg

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike. — Bill Haywood

I've never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe. — Robert A. Heinlein

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head. — George Herbert

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike! — John Paul Jones

I have never been one to run when tragedy strikes. — Jenna Morasca

It strikes me, my dear, that religious devotion would be somewhat out of place tonight — James Hogg

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God. — Matt Chandler

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security. — Bill Owens

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather. — John Gardner

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him. — Madeleine L'Engle

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken. — Joe Rogan

You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless. — Tara West

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. — F.R. Leavis

Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. — Bob Geldof

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes. — Joe Abercrombie

Bind me-I still can sing-
Banish-my mandolin
Strikes true within-
Slay-and my Soul shall rise
Chanting to Paradise-
Still thine. — Emily Dickinson

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"I'll never bowl with him again. After he got a strike, he spiked the ball." — Lawrence Taylor

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious. — Stephen King

Inspiration strikes at very funny times. — Gillian Jacobs

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike. — Arthur Scargill

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone. — Craig Finn

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. — J.G. Holland

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

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us. — Stephen Charnock

I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike. — Jim Kern

He works fast. He throws a lot of strikes. That's what an infielder loves. It gets you into the game. — Omar Vizquel

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels

When a man strikes another man, he better have a good reason. There is never a good reason for a man to strike a woman. — Dixie Waters

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront. — Claude Debussy

I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box
the part one strikes on, I mean. — Virginia Woolf

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln

Strike hard and fast and do not separate. — Heinz Guderian

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison. — Nelson Mandela

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time. — Jane Smiley

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens. — Ally Condie

Comedy strikes here... just to reduce pressure and depression. — Deyth Banger

You never know, lightning could strike. — William Parrish

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition. — Gary Coleman

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable. — Graham Greene

When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy. — Violeta Chamorro

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music. — Merle Travis

They say true genius often strikes in the pale moments between awake and asleep. — Sarah Ockler

If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault. — Doc Bundy

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior. — Warren Buffett

I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet. — Chris Avellone

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

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place. — Daniel Boone

If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand. — Marsha Blackburn

STATISTICS

Pack of Lucky Strikes.
A lottery ticket — ACT

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background. — Sundar Pichai

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes. — Kaye Gibbons

The werehyena Casanova strikes again. — Ilona Andrews

Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail,So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger. — Thiruvalluvar

If there's a remedy when trouble strikes, What reason is there for dejection? And if there is no help for it, What use is there in being glum? — Santideva

When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly. — Gretchen Rubin

Love isn't a gentle thing. I've found it carries a club and a bullwhip and doesn't care when or who it strikes. — Abigail Roux

So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you. — Alan Jacobs

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. — Charles Buxton

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night. — Thomas Harris

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once. — David Bronstein

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it — George Bernard Shaw

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. — Joseph Addison

It strikes me that it's always religious people who are most surprised by grace. — Glennon Doyle Melton

Stay open, who knows, lightning could strike. — William Parrish

The phrase "a little genetic test" strikes me as an oxymoron. — Veronica Roth

My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more. — Emil M. Cioran

[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back. — Orson Scott Card

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky. — Paul Krugman

Sometimes inspiration strikes; other times you have to hunt it down. — Nina LaCour

And it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. — Colum McCann

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy. — Sebastian Barry

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce

A hybrid nature of organization strikes the right balance between "virtual world" and the human connections. — Pearl Zhu

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones. — Edmond Rostand

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that. — George Brett

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy. — Terry Goodkind

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You come up and read books?" asked Gregor. "Read them, eat them, whatever mood strikes me, — Suzanne Collins

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

Leigh [ Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door. — Boy George

You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you? — Meg Cabot

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see. — Horace

Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy. — Victoria Woodhull

A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off. — Kevin Keegan

Lord of the Sex strikes again! — Kylie Scott

I turn to see Ansel leaning against the door frame. His eyes swept over the room.
Whoa, Hurricane Naomi strikes, leaving no survivers. — Andrea Cremer

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind. — Benjamin Franklin

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root. — William Shakespeare

One thunderbolt strikes
root through everything — Heraclitus

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered. — Grover Cleveland

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both — F Scott Fitzgerald

Insanity just is, a kind of natural disaster that strikes out of the blue, the kind of thing that can happen. — Jo Nesbo

Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live. — Marty Rubin