#strike

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#cancer #disease #heart #how #just

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

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#became #because #each #eventually #experience

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#event #life #me #state #strike

It's tough to strike out. Believe me. I hate striking out. It's no fun. It's embarrassing. But there really isn't anything I can do. It's just a part of my game. ↗

— Jim Thome

#believe #embarrassing #fun #game #hate

I flexed my wrist, popped a silver needle into my palm, and offered it to him. 'What's this?' 'A needle.' 'What should I do with it?' He'd walked right into it. Too easy. 'Please use it to pop your head. It's obscuring my view of the room.' - Kate & Saiman ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate-daniels #magic-strikes #saiman #shapeshifters #kate

I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car." Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?" "No. But I like to pretend it is. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#magic-strikes #saiman #ilona-andrews

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#boomerang #cause #circle #effect #gossip