I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics. — Mickey Cochrane Copy Share Image
Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell Copy Share Image
Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth;… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage.… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never… — Wallis Simpson Copy Share Image
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
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Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,'… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
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So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
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