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'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
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
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
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
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
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
Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the… — Georges Duhamel 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
We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what… — James St. James 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
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
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,… — Edmund Burke 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
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
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
The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each… — Harold Pinter 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
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
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
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
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
