To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might… — Thomas Secker Copy Share Image
We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play… — William Shakespeare 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
The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history… — Olympia Snowe 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
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 whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes,… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust. — Rian Johnson 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
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby. — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
He did not feel the ground under his feet - he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air-forelegs and… — Felix Salten Copy Share Image
Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that… — Florence King 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
Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're… — Freddie Prinze, Jr 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
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
A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For… — Hannah Kent 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
I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in… — Saint Basil 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
