Thrust Quotes

246 quotes by 226 authors

Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before… — Elizabeth Gilbert
History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its… — Thomas Huxley
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from… — Seneca the Younger
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's… — Anais Nin
Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone… — Robert Irwin
There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the… — Lorenzo Lamas
I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative… — Richard Foster
In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate. — Alanis Morissette
The point of a presidential campaign is to put the candidate through the ringer: to force him to get banged up by his opponents and… — Monica Crowley
I feel like in Atlanta, if you were a female dancer, the more you can dance like the boys, the more respect you get. I… — Janina Gavankar
With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing… — Amish Tripathi
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was… — Hannah Kent
Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature. — Ian Mckellen
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say… — Rick Perlstein
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and… — Orlando Bloom
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of… — John Chrysostom
Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there. — John Aniston
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on… — Levi Strauss

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