He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be morose. I didn't want to recoil from everything” — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
SOME GIRLS WEAR PRADA. SOME GIRLS WEAR GLOCK 17 SHORT RECOIL SPRING-LOADED SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS WITH A LOADED CHAMBER INDICATOR AND A NONSLIP… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and… — Carnie Wilson Copy Share Image
Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender,… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society… — Stephen V Monsma Copy Share Image
If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging… — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil:… — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches,… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
People should remain unaffected by what others may say. A true man is one who overcomes the ups and downs of life… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
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