#strike

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#average #ball #batting #catch #cumulative

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes. ↗

— Sally Field

#got #just #magic #sometimes #strikes

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#ball game #basketball #call #game #involvement

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#country #fertile #good #grass #handsome

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#american culture #believe #bet #centers #culture

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. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#commitment #concept #fascinated #handling #i

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#community #go #i #member #out

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. ↗

— Robert Burton

#deeper #strikes #sword #than #word

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#clear #come #comes #countries #does

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house. ↗

— River Phoenix

#anyone #clean #could #else #house