#strike

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#attempt #brutal #comprehensible #courageous #else

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

#ago #dried #everyone #few #impending

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#belief #between #everything #government #idea

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

— Helen Keller

#battles #fought #strike #war #without

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#british #british people #call #contrast #democrats

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality. ↗

— Clare Short

#between #must #quality #right #right balance

I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#feet #foot #fragile #i #i think

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#camp #during #especially #father #her

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#circumstances #detached #electrical #electron #even

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#balance #benign #between #caused #consumers