Famous quotes containing the words general, strike and/or called:
“Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
“This Pardoner hadde heer as yelow as wex,
But smothe it heeng as dooth a strike of flex.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“When we called Papa, Papa,
life was comfortable.
When our children called us Papa, Papa,
life was a torment.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.