#strike

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. ↗

— Horace

#fall #heavier #high #highest #highest mountain

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

— Lee Iacocca

#cannot #fallen #lightning #like #strike

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. ↗

— William R. Alger

#god #highest #league #peace #secret

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#approaches #early #give #normally #powerful

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies... and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#area #audio #away #bin #his

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#close #half #hall #house #i

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#alcoholism #alienation #dependency #human #incidence

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

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying. ↗

— Bette Davis

#dying #i #newspaper #strike

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