The main thrust of the Social Security reform was to get the benefit structure in line with the realities of the Trust… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of… — Lillian Bassman Copy Share Image
I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I love zombie films like Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' - I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in… — Teresa Palmer Copy Share Image
The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness,… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Liftoff is very, very gentle, contrary to what most people think. Because you remember, the weight of the booster - the amount… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I've got things I have to do in fiction to sort of register my existence, before I kick the bucket, but it… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the… — Russell E. Train Copy Share Image
The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I affiliated with Physicians for Social Responsibility early on, and actually, their major thrust wasn't nearly as much around community health centers,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection. — Julian Ovenden Copy Share Image
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as… — Jeremy Kyle Copy Share Image
I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world.… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Spring had come. Despite the many wet and gusty days which April had thrust in rude challenge upon reluctant May, in the… — Ralph Connor Copy Share Image
The point of a presidential campaign is to put the candidate through the ringer: to force him to get banged up by… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
