Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously… — Martial Copy Share Image
It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a… — Levi Strauss Copy Share Image
The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere. — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may… — George Gascoigne Copy Share Image
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The proclamation of grace has its limits. Grace may not be proclaimed to anyone who does not recognize or distinguish or desire… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them. — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
We must focus on prayer as the main thrust to accomplish God's will and purpose on earth. The forces against us have… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat. — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
