Lucinda Williams
Singer-songwriter
"I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment."
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Strikes
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Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment."
Pete Carroll
Football Coach
"The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike."
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"There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time."
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"What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis; not the young, cool guy, always the bloated fool."
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"I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him."
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"I'll never bowl with him again. After he got a strike, he spiked the ball."
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"No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone."
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"A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes."
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"Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!"
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"Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains."
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"I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to."
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"When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again."
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"Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes."
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"So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn."
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"The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it."
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"There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard."
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"Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root."
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"Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head."
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"When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill."
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"You have to know when to strike and when to retreat."
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"Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best."
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"Strike at a great man, and you will not miss."
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