Top 1200 Strike Back Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

I know if I'm playing centre-back, there are certain places where you don't give your full-back the ball - because I've been the full-back!

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards.

With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging.

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

It dates back to my dad and my uncles. They all got permits to go to Beverly Hills High School back in the '70s and early '80s. After they finished college, they came back and became football coaches there. So I was there with a permit.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past

lets go back, back to the begining back to when the earth the sun the stars they all aligned, cause perfect didn't feel so perfect tryin to fit a square into a circle was no life i defy

Always watch your back - when I was fourteen I got a tattoo of an eye on the back of my neck, so I could say I was always watchin' my back.

I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

I don't practise indirect free-kicks, but the technique and how I strike the ball I practise a lot.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you.

This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.

I don't need to be going out reverse-sweeping for six and four straightaway. Singles can be just as important as boundaries, rotating the strike and not letting the bowlers settle.

One should never lose hope. Homosexuality can strike any straight man at any age.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

Ian Holloway played wingers higher up and then wanted us to come back and receive the ball; Dougie Freedman didn't want us to come back too much because he wanted us to attack; Tony Pulis made the team sit back so it was literally you against the full-back.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

There is a strike zone in the pocket that's very clear. Can't hit QBs low, can't hit them high.

My dad was a miner at South Kirkby colliery. He went on strike but he didn't go to the picket line, he just put his feet up and got in my mum's way.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you told us goodbye And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

People should have values, so by extension, a company should. And one of the things you do is give back. So how do you give back? We give back through our work in the environment, in running the company on renewable energy. We give back in job creation.

The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.

They are in a dilemma, they are in trouble now. Hate them and strike them.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

I found myself Tivoing because I was working so much last season [of Heroes], I Tivoed all of the episodes so I could come back and watch them back to back to back and I found myself like I could not put my remote down. I was like, "Just one more episode, please."

I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.

Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back, bringing back news, bringing back information, applying it.

When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

Justin Trudeau tries to say that Canada is back. I say the Liberals are back - back to ignoring the rules and abusing the privileges of power.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.

[Bill] Clinton's voice, his manner of speaking and his terminology, "Back in those days... Yeah, back those days... You know, we didn't have the internet back then." My grandfather said, "Back in those days, we didn't have automobiles".