Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air. It's a measure of my mixed feelings about The Empire Strikes Back that I'm not at all sure that I understand the plot. The Empire Strikes Back is about as personal as a Christmas card from a bank.
[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.
A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.
Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.
That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.
A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we're doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.
But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.
If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once guilt and retribution, divine power only expiates; if the former threatens, the latter strikes; if the former is bloody, the latter is lethal without spilling blood
And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.
But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.
I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action. It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
Strike hard and fast and do not separate.
I've been fortunate with the changeup. I've been able to throw it for strikes.
What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
