Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
Jean Anouilh

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
Joey Adams

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.
Kenneth Baker

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.
Richard Ben-Veniste

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. Mencken

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
Timothy Garton Ash

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Lee Iacocca

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
Frederick William Faber

The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.
Jamie Muir

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

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
Charles Hamilton Houston

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
James Larkin

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Sun Tzu

The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.
Richard Ben-Veniste

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
Willie Tyler

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.
Dick Cheney