Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drugs will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combatting other forms of crime. We would thus strike a double blow: reduce crime activity directly, and at the same time increase the efficacy of law enforcement and crime prevention.
If you do keep the faith and continue to be radical, very bad things can and do happen to you. At the very least you will be marginalized. Same if you are poor and strike out. Prison awaits you in the USA.
The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
Like a cobra, your strike should be felt before it is seen.
In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or she is being asked to live in a furniture exhibit in the British Museum. The other partner remains convinced that he or she is forced to contend with the human version of Hurricane Gilbert.
I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.
Strike hard and fast and do not separate.
A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.
I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.
If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul.
Art is a weapon for me, with which I can strike back.
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?
As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.
Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins. " "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did. " And he looked very thoughtful.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.