Best Recoil Quotes

42 Recoil quotes by 40 unique authors

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin. — Lucretius
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements. — Bill Keller
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by… — Yanis Varoufakis
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil… — William Wordsworth
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what being a teenager… — James St. James
Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist — Lou Reed
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false… — Dante Alighieri
SOME GIRLS WEAR PRADA. SOME GIRLS WEAR GLOCK 17 SHORT RECOIL SPRING-LOADED SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS WITH A LOADED CHAMBER INDICATOR AND A NONSLIP GRIP. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones
Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is… — Sam Harris
Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She… — Edith Wharton
The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the… — Jodi Picoult
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and… — Max Lucado
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he… — John Galsworthy
On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband… — Alfred Nobel
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were… — Edward Grey
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. — Jack London

Who Wrote These Recoil Quotes

40 authors contributed a total of 42 Recoil Quotes, led by these top contributors: