#strikes

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#bodies #calls #cherish #determine #dream

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#any #athletes #brain #clubs #days

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#call #courtroom #ideology #judge #judge roberts

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. ↗

— David Hume

#design #even #everywhere #intention #most

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#approaches #early #give #normally #powerful

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#air #bare #bosnia #changed #clark

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#get #go #help #i #induce

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#being #better #defeat #disillusionment #elections

Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore. ↗

— Curtis Sliwa

#being #hey #i #invincible #know