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Strikes Quotes

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

Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.678

A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship.

John Hookham Frere, sir Henry Bartle E. Frere (1st bart.) (1872). “The works of John Hookham Frere, collected with a mem. by W.E. and sir B. Frere”, p.114

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.197, Tuttle Publishing

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

Kingsley Amis (1990). “The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990”, Arrow

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Theodore Sturgeon (2000). “A Saucer of Loneliness”, p.80, North Atlantic Books

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

"Sally Field, ‘Lincoln’ Star, On Politics And Looking Back On ‘Smokey And The Bandit’". Interview With Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.

"Chuck Liddell UFC 115 Interview". Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com. June 10, 2010.