#strikes

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

The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center. ↗

— Ted Olson

#believe #center #department #had #i

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

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue. ↗

— Pitbull

#already #cuban #everything #getting #had

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. ↗

— John Irving

#i #kind #life #maybe #me

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

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

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#bill clinton #clinton #goes #guy #him

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 have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music. ↗

— Merle Travis

#fruits #hunger #i #known #music