Top 1200 Strike Back Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

So many want me to do another 'Paruthiveeran'; others are fans of my 'Siruthai' avatar. Extreme expectations, but I have to strike a balance.

If you know what you do well and stick to that, I think you can appeal to the different generations. You can strike a chord with them. I've got the brain of a teenager anyway.

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes

I think fans oftentimes get an inferior product on back-to-back games, and I think that has to be the number one thing that gets addressed for the fans and for the players - the elimination or the drastic reduction of back-to-back games.

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

NOW, MY BRETHREN!" Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it from the smoke image or from all the way across town. "STRIKE FOR OLYMPUS!

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

I've had chronic back pain since I was a preteen - like, 12. I have really funny posture. I developed this funny posture where I hunch my back a little bit when I'm playing, and I overuse my back muscles instead of my abs. My posture has put a lot of strain on my lower back.

People are with our Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, with regard to the surgical strike on black money. They are not with the opposition parties.

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.

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.

Teamwork is a significant part of 'Counter-Strike: Condition Zero' and many of the secondary objectives require you to effectively work with your squad.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

It's hard to say what I meant by "as we know it." I'm not about to go up on a mountain on new year's eve and wait for the lightening to strike.

The 'Living-Wage Campaign' at Harvard is like a Boston winter: you know it's going to strike, but wonder only when and how hard.

[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.

Twitter's had a little fun with me because I say, 'I'm going to circle back. I'm going to circle back.' Now, I will say, and my very hardworking team can confirm, I'm obsessed with circling back with reporters, and not just saying it, but after the briefing getting back to them.

I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.

Scoring and fishing are comparable. In both cases, you must have patience and wait for the right moment to strike power with the utmost coolness.

You have to strike a balance between imprinting the film with your voice, and trusting these amazing, talented people you've hired to do great work.

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

I keep going back as if I'm looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain.

If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.

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.

Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish ill And fight God's battle upward from the beast.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.

Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion.

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.