Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
Over the years, I’ve learnt how to strike a balance between both my lives and give quality time to my passion as well as to my family. Yes, it is tiring at times, and every working woman goes through the phase.
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
I’m from a working-class background, and I’ve experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don’t come from a wealthy background.
So many want me to do another ‘Paruthiveeran’; others are fans of my ‘Siruthai’ avatar. Extreme expectations, but I have to strike a balance.
I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.
First of all, Marty Foster is a really good fellow. No. 2, Google or YouTube the time he called Ben Zobrist out on a strike three against Joe Nathan couple years ago that gave Joe Nathan his 300th save.
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with everything.
When you get strike one, strike two, you’re putting pressure on them to swing at your pitches.
I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners’ strike going on, friends’ families collapsing, and people being unemployed.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
I have been trying for years to perform in America. Now the first time I am here there is a strike. I must play. It is what I must do.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
It’s been a challenge for me my whole life in that my insides don’t necessarily match my outsides… People try to strike up a conversation with me about Dungeons & Dragons or comic books, and I’m like, ‘I can’t. I’m sorry.’
Sometimes we’re going to take marginal pitches on the edges and get called out on strike, but we want to get a pitch that we can drive and a pitch we can do damage on. I think when you do that, you don’t necessarily chase as much out of the zone.
I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
I didn’t call for a ballot at the start of the miners’ strike in 1984. I’ll regret that until my dying day.
I think that if you can work and travel, that is the best deal you can strike.
People didn’t know me. So, I had to strike a chord and build relationships.
I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.
In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
‘Rocket Boys,’ for one reason or the other, just happened to strike a chord across country and across world, maybe because it’s set in a little coal-mining town. That’s why NASA likes it – most of the engineers come from towns very similar.
My parents got ahead in the news business with wits, guts, and a creative interpretation of ‘fair game.’ They leased their first helicopter in 1985, when KTLA news crews were on strike. Maybe the crews had good grievances, maybe not. Either way, my parents ignored the strike and went to work.
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.
Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they’re within range, you’re dead, you’re dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it’s WHACK!
I had this funny family. At one end, they were breeding dogs in south-east London – for greyhound racing – and at the other, my uncle was living in Downing Street. And I would actually go to Downing Street, which didn’t strike me as funny. I’d get on the number 15 bus.
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike.
I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God’s commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
There was a time when content could be manipulated with money, but today we have surpassed that. Now, only good content will create ripples and strike a chord because the artistes are connecting directly with their listeners through social media.
I’m not trying to strike everybody out.
Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best – and change – from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.
I’m not trying to strike them out, but there are certain situations, when it’s an 0-2 count or a 1-2 count, when I want to have a pitch where I want to strike you out.
Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There’s something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.
I have never made statements like, ‘I’m quitting TV’ or ‘I’m quitting Bollywood.’ I have always wanted to strike a balance between the two.
My advice to every one expecting to go into business is to hit often and hit hard; in other words, strike with all your might.
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth’s climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.
It’s difficult to mark Ronaldo. I think he has a lot of qualities. He has all the abilities a striker can possesses. He’s very good with the head, the right foot, the left foot. His strike is the same whatever the feet.
Kim Jong Un, like all totalitarian leaders, wants above all to ensure his survival. He is convinced that a nuclear strike capability is necessary to deter the United States and South Korea from threatening his regime, and to extract concessions that might prolong its life.
Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.
New York is a spectacular place, and those who are jealous of the way we live our lives are always going to, you know, to strike out, and, you know, we’re always going to be a target, sadly. London is going to be a target. You know, anywhere in the West, you’re a target.
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO’s cohesion.
Every time I’d read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomical observance. For example, some of the circles are oriented so that at the winter solstice, the sun will strike a standing stone.
I’m not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don’t intentionally want to strike a chord.
If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.
It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to ‘fix it.’
I am always very grateful that I do not have to rely for my meal on a nationalised dinner service working as well as the Post Office on strike day.
The Supreme Court must strike down the government’s illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.
You have to strike while the iron is hot. You have to take downtime to see friends and family, but my passion is acting: pursuing those scary, challenging characters and working with passionate people.
