#strike

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#like #merely #out #pocket #private

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#aware #i #i am #i do #interesting

Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#am #balance #between #challenge #created

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#become #fact #individuals #life #me

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often. ↗

— Du Fu

#asks #clouds #drafting #happens #often

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#liberty #problem #race #race problem #shall

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

— James Larkin

#blow #broken #brooding #fresh #loathe

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. ↗

— Gary Larson

#black #black hole #calendar #cartoon #daily

But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool. ↗

— Tone Loc

#cool #freedom #quite #strike

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#cowardly #defenseless #gossip #ignorant #instead