Thrust Quotes

246 quotes by 226 authors

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other… — Alan Greenspan
You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over… — John Rabe
In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with… — Francis Schaeffer
In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that… — Yukio Mishima
When one begins to reflect on philosophyâ€”then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating… — Novalis
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me. — James Ellroy
Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledgeâ€¦. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a… — Howard E. Koch
What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes… — J F C Fuller
Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India if the deal… — Abdul Kalam
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it. — Ernest Gellner
From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep… — William Barrett
O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it . . . — Anne Desclos
We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are… — Steve Albini
The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest… — Andrew Bacevich
Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother? — Maurice Flanagan
Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and… — Andrew Gross
He did not feel the ground under his feet - he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air-forelegs and hind legs horizontal.… — Felix Salten
Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures… — Edwin Arthur Hall
Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to… — Georges Bernanos
We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that. — Swami Vivekananda

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