#strikes

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own. ↗

— Connie Mack

#born #own #strikes #take #third

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#city #does #fans #film #friendship

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#after #ghastly #normal #over #postal

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. ↗

— Satchel Paige

#home #home plate #just #move #plate

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#i #insane #me #something #strikes

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#being #better #defeat #disillusionment #elections

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#arizona #character #due #governor #history

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

One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area. ↗

— Lee Scott

#change #changes #critics #fuel #keep

Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#away #carried #crime #detaining #explanation