Thrust Quotes

“Parry and thrust.”

— A.J. Nuest

Thrust the sword into the dark

— Obert Skye

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

— Morgan Freeman

“It's a pelvis thrust, not a pelvic wiggle.”

— Jessica Verday

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

— Clive Owen

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

— O. Henry

Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.

— William Shakespeare

There's been a lot thrust on my shoulders at a very young age.

— LeAnn Rimes

The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

— Jesse Jackson

When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.

— Roger Goodell

We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.

— Dallin H. Oaks

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

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

— Rian Johnson

I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

— Myrtle Reed

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

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

— I. L. Peretz

The trouble with most of us is that we keep our eyes closed to opportunities that thrust themselves at us; and rare…

— Dale Carnegie

The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever…

— Mikhail Bakunin

So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm…

— John Irving

The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life,…

— Woody Allen

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a…

— Levi Strauss

once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something…

— Martha Ostenso

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

What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious…

— Horace

[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's…

— Paul Laffoley

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

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in…

— Michael Newdow

Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer…

— Andre Malraux

Bill Clinton, who, to his credit, has established a clear and consistent foreign policy, which is as follows: Whenever the president of…

— Dave Barry

I didn't ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it.…

— Nick Jonas

To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on…

— Jon Jones

Well, growing up in LA, things are kind of thrust in front of you. You're almost forced to grow up pretty fast,…

— Sarah Hudson

Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.

— Publilius Syrus

Where there's a chase or whatever, it's not being thrust into it.

— Hrithik Roshan

Celebrities choose fame. Royals have it thrust on them.

— Claire Foy

Thou you thrust your dagger at my eye, I will not flinch.

— Lynn Flewelling

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

— Frank Dane

“A man takes what the gods thrust upon him.”

— David Gemmell